Expression and role of thyroid-stimulating hormone receptors in proopiomelanocortin-producing pituitary cells.

CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that TSH is a potential paracrine modulator of anterior pituitary corticotrophs and melanotrophs, controlling the exocytotic but not the transcriptional pathway in a cAMP/calcium influx-dependent manner. PMID: 33191870 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Thyroid Source Type: research