Pituitary Remodeling Throughout Life: Are Resident Stem Cells Involved?
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MicroRNA-7a2 is Required for the Development of Pituitary Stem Cells.
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Stem Cells Dev. 2022 Jul;31(13-14):357-368. doi: 10.1089/scd.2022.0023.
High fat diet-induced loss of pituitary plasticity in aging female mice with ablated leptin signaling in somatotropes.
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Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2025 Jul 16;16:1617109. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2025.1617109. eCollection 2025.
Changes of stem cell niche during experimental pituitary tumor development.
Guido CB, Sosa LDV, Perez PA, Zlocoswki N, Velazquez FN, Gutierrez S, Petiti JP, Mukdsi JH, Torres AI.
J Neuroendocrinol. 2021 Dec;33(12):e13051. doi: 10.1111/jne.13051. Epub 2021 Oct 27.
The astroglial and stem cell functions of adult rat folliculostellate cells.
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Glia. 2023 Feb;71(2):205-228. doi: 10.1002/glia.24267. Epub 2022 Sep 12.
Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development.
Brewer KM, Brewer KK, Richardson NC, Reiter JF, Berbari NF, Konjikusic MJ.
Dev Biol. 2026 Apr;532:20-31. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2026.01.002. Epub 2026 Jan 7.
Regeneration in the Pituitary After Cell-Ablation Injury: Time-Related Aspects and Molecular Analysis.
Willems C, Fu Q, Roose H, Mertens F, Cox B, Chen J, Vankelecom H.
Endocrinology. 2016 Feb;157(2):705-21. doi: 10.1210/en.2015-1741. Epub 2015 Dec 14.
Single-cell transcriptomics identifies divergent developmental lineage trajectories during human pituitary development.
Zhang S, Cui Y, Ma X, Yong J, Yan L, Yang M, Ren J, Tang F, Wen L, Qiao J.
Nat Commun. 2020 Oct 19;11(1):5275. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19012-4.
Glycoprotein hormone subunit alpha 2 (GPHA2): A pituitary stem cell-expressed gene associated with NOTCH2 signaling.
Ge X, Weis K, Raetzman L.
Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2024 May 15;586:112163. doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2024.112163. Epub 2024 Jan 20.
Anterior pituitary cells defective in the cell-autonomous factor, df, undergo cell lineage specification but not expansion.
Gage PJ, Roller ML, Saunders TL, Scarlett LM, Camper SA.
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