Gonadotrope plasticity at cellular and population levels

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4729-4739

  Alim, Zahara ^a   Hartshorn, Cheryl ^b   Mai, Oliver ^a,c   Stitt, Iain ^a   Clay, Colin ^b   Tobet, Stuart ^b   Boehm, Ulrich ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LACTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULARIZATION; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPHS; MICE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR;

EID: 84866760670     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1360     Document Type: Article

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