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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-10-15
pubmed:abstractText
A 53-year-old Japanese woman was diagnosed with Cushing's disease caused by a adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-secreting pituitary adenoma on the basis of clinical an imaging data. The surgically resected tumor tissue was investigated histopathologically using immunohistochemical analysis of pituitary hormones. Our study revealed that the adenoma expressed not only ACTH but growth hormone (GH) in the tumor cells. Furthermore, immunohistochemical double staining showed that some adenoma cells were positive for both ACTH and GH. In situ hybridization for GH mRNA revealed that the adenoma cells produced GH as opposed to simply storing it. Although many pituitary adenomas produce multiple pituitary hormones, pituitary adenoma producing both ACTH and GH in the same adenoma cells, such as seen in this case, is extremely rare. To elucidate the molecular mechanism involved, we investigated the expression of transcription factors NeuroD1 and Pit-1 and found that both transcription factors were expressed in many tumor cells. This case report describes a very rare case of pituitary adenoma that produced both ACTH and GH. We propose a hitherto undescribed translineage expression of transcription factors as the basic mechanism of this unique functional differentiation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
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pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0893-3952
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1102-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Adenoma, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Cushing Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Growth Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Oligonucleotide Probes, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Pituitary Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-RNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Trans-Activators, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Transcription Factor Pit-1, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12379758-Treatment Outcome
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
A case of Cushing's disease caused by pituitary adenoma producing adrenocorticotropic hormone and growth hormone concomitantly: aberrant expression of transcription factors NeuroD1 and Pit-1 as a proposed mechanism.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports