BACKGROUND Colocalization analysis of confocal fluorescence and electron microscopy (EM) are important tools to detect the expression of multiple anterior pituitary hormones within the same cell. Heterozygous (Men1+/-) mice developed pituitary tumors, mostly reported somatolactotrophinomas and ACTH secreting pituitary adenomas but also nonfunctioning tumors. The aim of the study was to run immu...

Pituitary adenomas constitute 15-20% of intracranial neoplasms. Previously we reported that cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) is upregulated in pituitary tumors associated with activating protein p35, and plays an essential role in pituitary adenomas progression. Here we explored the mechanisms of CDK5 signaling in prolactin pituitary adenomas. Our data indicate that p35 expression and CDK5 acti...

In GH-deficient children showing ectopic posterior pituitary hyperintense signal (EPP), the anatomical details of the pituitary-hypothalamic region and the relationship between the visibility of the pituitary stalk and anterior pituitary function were studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The absence or presence of the pituitary stalk was recorded by MRI before and after the injection of...

Objective(s) The aim of this study was to investigate glycoconjugates distribution patterns as well as their changes during the course of pituitary portal vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. Materials and Methods Formalin fixed paraffin sections of 10 to 20 days of Sprague Dawly rat fetuses were processed for histochemical studies using four different horseradish peroxidase (HRP) conjugated lec...

In general, pituitary tumors are benign with low mitotic activity. Premature senescence has been considered to be a significant mechanism underlying this uniquely benign pituitary tumor. The present study aims to compare the expression of the associated proteins involved in premature senescence pathways among normal, aging and pituitary adenoma cells. We successfully induced the aging pituitary...

Understanding factors subserving pituitary cell proliferation enables understanding mechanisms underlying uniquely benign pituitary tumors. Pituitary tumor-transforming gene (Pttg) deletion results in pituitary hypoplasia, low pituitary cell proliferation rates, and rescue of pituitary tumor development in Rb(+/-) mice. Pttg(-/-) pituitary glands exhibit ARF/p53/p21-dependent senescence pathway...

Growth hormone deficiency is an important cause of short stature in childhood. it is characterised by low growth velocity in childhood and is diagnosed by stimulation testing. individuals with growth hormone deficiency may have other pituitary hormone deficits in addition to growth hormone deficiency. When multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies are present, abnormal pituitary anatomy, as visua...

Research performed on the pituitary has proven that cytokines play an important role in maintaining pituitary physiology, affecting not only cell proliferation but also hormone secretion. The effects of cytokines can be autocrine or paracrine. This review gives an overview on the effects of the most studied cytokines in the pituitary. Special interest is focused on interleukin-6 (IL-6) because ...