Article
The IGF-I receptor sub-membrane domain is intact in GH-secreting pituitary tumours.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Feb 1995
Greenman Y, Prager D, Melmed S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Clinical acromegaly is characterized by dysregulation of somatotroph GH secretion in the presence of high circulating serum IGF-I levels. Physiologically, IGF-I exerts a negative feedback on GH secretion at both the hypothalamic and the pituitary levels. We have previous...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Exons
- Growth Hormone
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Pituitary Neoplasms
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
- Receptor, IGF Type 1
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
