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Absence of activating mutations of CXCR4 in pituitary tumours.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Feb 2010
Lee Yong-ho, Noh Tae Woong, Lee Mi Kyung, Jameson J Larry, Lee Eun Jig
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Mutations of the gsp oncogene are responsible for 30-40% of GH-producing pituitary adenomas and 10% of nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs). However, the pathogenetic mechanism of the remaining pituitary tumours still remains to be identified. Recently, the interaction between the chemokine stromal cell-derived factor 1 and its receptor CXCR4 was found to play an important role in GH production...
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