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9120729

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-4-21
pubmed:abstractText
Twelve cases of insulinoma were studied to assess the amount of hormone synthesis and hormone storage by the tumour and to see what effect a hormone-producing tumour has on the adjacent normal islets. This was investigated by performing in situ hybridization, which detects hormone messenger RNA, thus giving an indication of the degree of hormone synthesis by the tumour, and immunocytochemistry, which detects the hormone itself, thus giving an indication of the amount of hormone stored in the tumour cells. It was found that in most cases there was less hormone stored within the tumour cells than in adjacent islet cells. In a minority of cases, this decrease in stored hormone was associated with reduced hormone synthesis, but the majority of cases showed either equivalent or increased levels of hormone mRNA in the tumour cells compared with adjacent islets. In addition, it was noted that, unlike some other endocrine organs, the presence of a hormone-producing tumour within the pancreas did not appear to inhibit hormone synthesis in the adjacent normal tissue.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0022-3417
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
181
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
218-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Demonstration of insulin production and storage in insulinomas by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry.
pubmed:affiliation
University Department of Pathology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, U.K.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article