MicroRNAs in the human pituitary

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 134-143

  Sivapragasam, Milani ^a   Rotondo, Fabio ^a   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^b   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^c   Cusimano, Michael ^a   Syro, Luis V ^d   Kovacs, Kalman ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL PABLO TOBÓN URIBE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; MicroRNA; Pathology; Pituitary adenoma; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPEPTIN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MICRORNA; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE;

ACROMEGALY; ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENESIS; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NONHUMAN; PITUITARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80052713512     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: 15590097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-011-9167-6     Document Type: Review

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