Ain't misbehavin': reflections on the functional differences among anterior pituitary cells

Williams Textbook of Endocrinology

2016 • 3,772 citations

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1991 • 1,248 citations

Dwarf locus mutants lacking three pituitary cell types result from mutations in the POU-domain gene pit-1

1990 • 1,211 citations

The Anterior Pituitary

1975 • 422 citations

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1996 • 353 citations

Transgenic mice with inducible dwarfism

1989 • 302 citations

HORMONE SECRETION BY CELLS DISSOCIATED FROM RAT ANTERIOR PITUITARIES

1973 • 231 citations

Signal Transduction Mechanisms of Ca²⁺Mobilizing Hormones: The Case of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone*

1990 • 193 citations

Stimulation of Adenosine 3′:5′-Cyclic Monophosphate Accumulation in Anterior Pituitary Gland In Vitro by Synthetic Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone

1972 • 188 citations

Pituitary ontogeny of the Snell dwarf mouse reveals Pit-1-independent and Pit-1-dependent origins of the thyrotrope

1994 • 185 citations

The Molecular Basis of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Action*

1986 • 117 citations

Functional Variations among Prolactin Cells from Different Pituitary Regions*

1987 • 92 citations

Spontaneous and Corticotropin-Releasing Factor-Induced Cytosolic Calcium Transients in Corticotrophs*

1991 • 91 citations

Functional Heterogeneity in Somatotrophs Isolated from the Rat Anterior Pituitary¹

1977 • 87 citations

Dopaminergic stimulation of prolactin release

1980 • 81 citations

Dissociation of the Adrenocorticotropin Secretory Responses to Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) and Vasopressin or Oxytocin by Using a Specific Cytotoxic Analog of CRF*

1988 • 57 citations

Distinct Classes of Corticotropes Mediate Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone- and Arginine Vasopressin-Stimulated Adrenocorticotropin Release*

1991 • 54 citations

Dynamic monitoring and quantification of gene expression in single, living cells: a molecular basis for secretory cell heterogeneity.

1996 • 49 citations

Physiological characterization of two functional states in subpopulations of prolactin cells from lactating rats.

1991 • 49 citations

Somatostatin increases growth hormone (GH) secretion in a subpopulation of porcine somatotropes: evidence for functional and morphological heterogeneity among porcine GH-producing cells.

1996 • 48 citations

Parallel stimulation of cyclic AMP accumulation and LH and FSH release by analogs of LH-RH in vitro

1974 • 43 citations

Pharmacologic Evidence that a D2 Receptor Subtype Mediates Dopaminergic Stimulation of Prolactin Secretion from the Anterior Pituitary Gland

1991 • 43 citations

Division of Labor among Gonadotropes

1995 • 41 citations

Suckling Unmasks the Stimulatory Effect of Dopamine on Prolactin Release: Possible Role for α-Melanocyte- Stimulating Hormone as a Mammotrope Responsiveness Factor*

1991 • 40 citations

EFFECT OF HYPOTHALAMIC RELEASING FACTORS AND STEROIDS ON RELEASE OF GONADOTROPHINS BY ORGAN CULTURES OF HUMAN FOETAL PITUITARIES

1973 • 39 citations

Morphological and Functional Heterogeneity of Frog Melanotrope Cells

1994 • 37 citations

Multiple cytosolic calcium signals and membrane electrical events evoked in single arginine vasopressin-stimulated corticotrophs.

1993 • 35 citations

Secretion of adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) and ACTH precursors in ovine anterior pituitary cells: actions of corticotrophin-releasing hormone, arginine vasopressin and glucocorticoids

1994 • 34 citations

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone influences the release of prolactin and growth hormone from intact rat pituitary in vitro during a limited period in neonatal life

1995 • 28 citations

Heterogeneity of growth hormone (GH)-producing cells in aging male rats: ultrastructure and GH gene expression in somatotrope subpopulations

1996 • 26 citations

A New Tissue-Slicing Method for the Study of Function and Position of Somatotrophs Contained within the Male Rat Pituitary Gland*

1990 • 24 citations

Dynamic monitoring and quantification of gene expression in single, living cells: a molecular basis for secretory cell heterogeneity

1996 • 24 citations

Dopamine-induced inhibition of prolactin release from cultured adenohypophysial cells: Spare receptors for dopamine

1978 • 23 citations

Dynamic fluctuations in the secretory activity of individual lactotropes as demonstrated by a modified sequential plaque assay.

1994 • 21 citations

Differential dopamine-induced prolactin mRNA levels in various prolactin-secreting cell (sub)populations

1992 • 19 citations

Somatostatin increases growth hormone (GH) secretion in a subpopulation of porcine somatotropes: evidence for functional and morphological heterogeneity among porcine GH-producing cells

1996 • 19 citations

Paradoxical effects of dopamine (DA): Gi alpha 3 mediates DA inhibition of PRL release while masking its PRL-releasing activity.

1994 • 18 citations

Dissociation of ACTH‐Secretory Mechanisms in Rat Pituitary Cells: Evidence that Basal and Vasopressin‐Stimulated Secretion Act via a Mechanism Distinct from that of Corticotrophin‐Releasing Factor

1989 • 17 citations

At the cutting edge mechanisms of luteinizing hormone secretion: new insights from studies with permeabilized cells

1991 • 17 citations

Age-related changes in the numbers of mammotrophs, somatotrophs and mammosomatotrophs in the anterior pituitary gland of female rats: A flow cytometric study

1995 • 14 citations

Effect of cAMP on GnRH stimulated LH secretion from individual pituitary gonadotropes

1995 • 13 citations

Paradoxical signal transduction mechanism of endothelins and sarafotoxins in cultured pituitary cells: Stimulation of phosphoinositide turnover and inhibition of prolactin release

1992 • 10 citations

Dynamic fluctuations in the secretory activity of individual lactotropes as demonstrated by a modified sequential plaque assay

1994 • 8 citations

Heterogeneous response of porcine gonadotrope subpopulations to gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) during postnatal development

1995 • 8 citations

Prolactin release from subpopulations of rat lactotrophs in the presence and absence of dopamine

1996 • 7 citations

The forest, the trees and the anterior pituitary

1992 • 6 citations

Paradoxical effects of dopamine (DA): Gi alpha 3 mediates DA inhibition of PRL release while masking its PRL-releasing activity

1994 • 5 citations

Effects of the estrous cycle stage on the prolactin secretory response to dopamine in vitro

1996 • 5 citations