Activation and regulation of endogenous retroviral genes in the human pituitary gland and related endocrine tumours

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 180-200

  Buslei, Rolf ^a   Strissel, Pamela L ^a   Henke, Christine ^a   Schey, Regina ^a   Lang, Nadine ^b   Ruebner, Matthias ^a   Stolt, Claus C ^b   Fabry, Ben ^b   Buchfelder, Michael ^a   Strick, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenohypophysis; cAMP; Endogenous retrovirus (ERV); Pituitary adenoma; Syncytin 1

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; FORSKOLIN; PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; PLACENTA PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CELL POPULATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; ENVELOPE GENE; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ADENOMA; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; ANIMALS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84921786828     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nan.12136     Document Type: Article

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