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Section of Endocrinology, Laboratorio in Rete del Tecnopolo Tecnologie delle Terapie Avanzate (LTTA), Division of Internal Medicine I, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via Savonarola 9, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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Section of Endocrinology, Laboratorio in Rete del Tecnopolo Tecnologie delle Terapie Avanzate (LTTA), Division of Internal Medicine I, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via Savonarola 9, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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Section of Endocrinology, Laboratorio in Rete del Tecnopolo Tecnologie delle Terapie Avanzate (LTTA), Division of Internal Medicine I, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via Savonarola 9, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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Introduction Cushing's disease (CD), characterized by hypercortisolism due to excessive secretion of ACTH by the pituitary gland, is a rare disease with an incidence between 0.7 and 2.4 cases per million per year ( Patil et al . 2008
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Medical School, University of Pecs, 12 Szigeti Street, Pecs 7624, Hungary
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Introduction Activin, inhibin, and follistatin are key regulators of pituitary FSH production. These factors, together with ovarian steroids and GnRH, define the diverse pattern of LH and FSH secretion. Based on their ability to modulate FSH
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Introduction Pituitary adenomas are usually benign tumours of the anterior pituitary, which represent 15.5% of intracranial neoplasms ( Ostrom et al . 2015 ). They are frequently associated with severe comorbidities due to mass effect and
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circRNAs in bovine cumulus cells ( Fu et al. 2018 ). As an important class of experimental animals, rats play a crucial role in many types of functional studies, particularly in reproductive development ( Han et al. 2017 a ). The pituitary is an
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evidence upon which they were based, on the neural mechanisms controlling the pituitary–gonadal axis. That gonadal function was under control by the CNS was well established at the time of Harris' monograph, as was the recognition of the gonad
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Introduction The pituitary gland comprises two parts: posterior and anterior. The posterior pituitary, or neurohypophysis, has a neuronal origin and is responsible for storing and secreting antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin, which are produced by
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unclarified. We previously demonstrated that Ucn 2 is expressed in the corticotrophs of rat pituitary but the concentrations of Ucn 2 in culture media of rat anterior pituitary cells are extremely low compared with those of ACTH ( Nemoto et al . 2007 ). We
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Fritz-Lipmann-Institut, Institute of Biomedicine, Institute for Biochemistry, University of East Anglia, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
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Max Planck Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Fritz-Lipmann-Institut, Institute of Biomedicine, Institute for Biochemistry, University of East Anglia, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
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the anterior pituitary ( Traverso et al . 1999 , Kawaminami et al . 2002 ), the master gland of the endocrine system. We were therefore interested in studying the expression of the annexins in the anterior pituitary not only in wild-type animals but
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Introduction The anterior pituitary, like many other endocrine tissues, retains considerable plasticity throughout adult life. The precise quantitative and qualitative nature of any pituitary mitotic and/or apoptotic response is influenced by the
Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Cordoba, Spain
Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia (HURS), Cordoba, Spain
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NST are common to SST ( Samson et al. 2008 , Hua et al. 2009 ). In spite of the genetic and putative functional link between NST and SST, the actions of NST on pituitary function, also known as the ‘master gland’ of the body, has not been explored