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Revealing the large-scale network organization of growth hormone-secreting cells
4 Nov 2005
Abstract excerpt
Pituitary growth hormone (GH)-secreting cells regulate growth and metabolism in animals and humans. To secrete highly ordered GH pulses (up to 1,000-fold rise in hormone levels in vivo), the pituitary GH cell population needs to mount coordinated responses to GH secretagogues, yet GH cells display an apparently heterogeneous scattered distribution in 2D histological studies. To address this paradox, we analyzed...
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