Folliculo-stellate cells of the human pituitary as adult stem cells: Examples of their neoplastic Potential

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 133-139

  Horvath, Eva ^a   Coire, Claire I ^b   Kovacs, Kalman ^a   Smyth, Harley S ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Trillium Health Centre Missassauga   (Canada)

Author keywords

Folliculostellate cells; Pathology; Pituitary; Stem cells; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; CANCER STEM CELL; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POLYSOME; SELLA TURCICA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; POLYRIBOSOMES; SELLA TURCICA; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952265764     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913121003662247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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