Expression of FOXL2 in human normal pituitaries and pituitary adenomas

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 765-773

  Egashira, Noboru ^a   Takekoshi, Susumu ^b   Takei, Mao ^c   Teramoto, Akira ^c   Osamura, Robert Y ^d  

^a SRL INC   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

FOXL2; gonadotropes; pituitary

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GLYCOPHORIN A; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXL 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957909616     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2010.169     Document Type: Article

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