Candidate genes for panhypopituitarism identified by gene expression profiling

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 1105-1116

  Mortensen, Amanda H ^a   MacDonald, James W ^b   Ghosh, Debashis ^a   Camper, Sally A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ames dwarf; Gonadotrope; Pituitary development; POU1F1; PROP1; Snell dwarf

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PROP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OTX2 GENE; PIT1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROP1 GENE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1;

MUS;

EID: 80053914021     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00080.2011     Document Type: Article

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