Pituitary transcription factors in the aetiology of combined pituitary hormone deficiency

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-60

  Pfaffle R ^a   Klammt, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

combined pituitary hormone deficiency; CPHD; LHX3; LHX4; pituitary; postnatal growth retardation; POU1F1; PROP1; transcription factor

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CORTICOTROPIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 18; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; PROLACTIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HESX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PROP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT4 PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ARTICLE; COMBINED PITUITARY HORMONE DEFICIENCY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LACTATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRESS;

EID: 79952501538     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2010.10.014     Document Type: Review

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