Rethinking the stalk effect: A new hypothesis explaining suprasellar tumor-induced hyperprolactinemia

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-310

  C Skinner, Donal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NEUROKININ A; PROLACTIN; SUBSTANCE P; TACHYKININ;

ARTICLE; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; INFUNDIBULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; SECRETION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 59249096899     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.08.030     Document Type: Article

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