Characterization of a tissue kallikrein in human prolactin-secreting adenomas
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Journal of Endocrinology
- Vol. 124 (2) , 327-+
- https://doi.org/10.1677/joe.0.1240327
Abstract
Immunoreactive tissue kallikrein was co-localized with prolactin in all the eleven prolactin-secreting adenomas of the human anterior pituitary gland examined in this study. The intracellular distribution of immunoreactivity in the prolactin-secreting cells suggests that tissue kallikrein is located within the Golgi complex of these cells. Both the intracellular hormone-processing action and the kininogenase activity of tissue kallikrein may be of functional importance in human prolactinomas. Journal of Endocrinology (1990) 124, 327–331This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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