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Paracrinicity: the story of 30 years of cellular pituitary crosstalk.

Insulin-like growth factor-I gene therapy reverses morphologic changes and reduces hyperprolactinemia in experimental rat prolactinomas.

Involvement of mPOU (Brn-5), a class VI POU protein, in the gene expression of Pit-1 as well as PRL.

Pituitary function and the somatotrophic system in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease under chronic dopaminergic therapy.

Ethanol alters production and secretion of estrogen-regulated growth factors that control prolactin-secreting tumors in the pituitary.

Involvement of cAMP response element-binding protein in the regulation of cell proliferation and the prolactin promoter of lactotrophs in primary culture.

Oxytocin action at the lactotroph is required for prolactin surges in cervically stimulated ovariectomized rats.

Male gonadal function, prolactin secretion and lactotroph population in an experimental model of cirrhosis.

Genetic control of estrogen action in the rat: mapping of QTLs that impact pituitary lactotroph hyperplasia in a BN x ACI intercross.

Increase in clusterin-containing follicles in the adenohypophysis of drug abusers.

Distinct labelling of fusion events in rat lactotrophs by FM 1-43 and FM 4-64 is associated with conformational differences.

Thyrotrophin-releasing hormone, vasoactive intestinal peptide, prolactin-releasing peptide and dopamine regulation of prolactin secretion by different lactotroph morphological subtypes in the rat.

Estrogen actions on lactotroph proliferation are independent of a paracrine interaction with other pituitary cell types: a study using lactotroph-enriched cells.

Tyrosine hydroxylase and dopamine transporter expression in lactotrophs from postlactating rats: involvement in dopamine-induced apoptosis.

Redefining ancestral relationships in pituitary cell genealogy.

Reporter expression, induced by a growth hormone promoter-driven Cre recombinase (rGHp-Cre) transgene, questions the developmental relationship between somatotropes and lactotropes in the adult mouse pituitary gland.

Subnanometer fusion pores in spontaneous exocytosis of peptidergic vesicles.

Opposing LSD1 complexes function in developmental gene activation and repression programmes.

Low dose of dopamine may stimulate prolactin secretion by increasing fast potassium currents.

Cell-specific expression of X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis in the anterior pituitary of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.