Lactotrophs
"Lactotrophs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Anterior pituitary cells that produce PROLACTIN.
| Descriptor ID |
D052682
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A06.407.747.500.812 A06.688.357.750.500.812 A08.186.211.464.497.352.435.500.500.812 A08.186.211.730.317.357.352.435.500.500.812 A08.713.357.750.500.812 A11.382.875 A11.436.507
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| Concept/Terms |
Lactotrophs- Lactotrophs
- Lactotroph
- Pituitary Prolactin Cells
- Pituitary Prolactin Cell
- Prolactin Cell, Pituitary
- Prolactin Cells, Pituitary
- Pituitary Prolactin-Secreting Cells
- Pituitary Prolactin Secreting Cells
- Pituitary Prolactin-Secreting Cell
- Prolactin-Secreting Cell, Pituitary
- Prolactin-Secreting Cells, Pituitary
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lactotrophs" by people in Profiles.
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Roof AK, Trudeau T, Gutierrez-Hartmann A. Pituitary somatolactotropes evade an oncogenic response to Ras. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2018 11 15; 476:165-172.
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Booth AK, Gutierrez-Hartmann A. Signaling pathways regulating pituitary lactotrope homeostasis and tumorigenesis. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2015; 846:37-59.