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Identity and distribution of immunoreactive adenohypophysial cells in the pituitary during the life cycle of sea lampreys, Petromyzon marinus

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

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

Effect of somatostatin on repair of ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage in pituitary adenoma cells GH3.

Involvement of somatostatin receptor subtypes in membrane ion channel modification by somatostatin in pituitary somatotropes.

Fasting and glucose effects on pituitary leptin expression: is leptin a local signal for nutrient status?

Administration of adrenocorticotropic hormone during chicken embryonic development prematurely induces pituitary growth hormone cells.

Mechanism of spontaneous and receptor-controlled electrical activity in pituitary somatotrophs: experiments and theory.

Ghrelin and GHRP-6 enhance electrical and secretory activity in GC somatotropes.

Somatostatin decreases voltage-gated Ca2+ currents in GH3 cells through activation of somatostatin receptor 2.

Conditional overexpression of the wild-type Gs alpha as the gsp oncogene initiates chronic extracellularly regulated kinase 1/2 activation and hormone hypersecretion in pituitary cell lines.

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.

Hes1 is required for pituitary growth and melanotrope specification.

The dependence receptor Ret induces apoptosis in somatotrophs through a Pit-1/p53 pathway, preventing tumor growth.

Effects of homologous ghrelins on the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-I axis in the tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus.

A single growth hormone determination 30 minutes after the administration of the GHRH plus GHRP-6 test is sufficient for the diagnosis of somatotrope dysfunction in patients who have suffered traumatic brain injury.

Antithyroid drugs inhibit thyroid hormone receptor-mediated transcription.

The rate of c-fos transcription in vivo is continuously regulated at the level of elongation by dynamic stimulus-coupled recruitment of positive transcription elongation factor b.

Influence of maternal dexamethasone treatment on morphometric characteristics of pituitary GH cells and body weight in near-term rat fetuses.