Angiogenesis in the intermediate lobe of the pituitary gland alters its structure and function

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 185, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-18

  Tanaka, Shigeyasu ^a   Nakakura, Takashi ^a   Jansen, Eric J R ^b   Unno, Keisuke ^a   Okada, Reiko ^a   Suzuki, Masakazu ^a   Martens, Gerard J M ^b   Kikuyama, Sakae ^a,c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Dopamine neuron; Melanotrope; Pituitary gland; Transgenic Xenopus; VEGF A

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 2; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; HYPOPHYSIS PARS DISTALIS; INNERVATION; MALE; MELANOTROPH; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN GENE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1 GENE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 2 GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84874447060     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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