ea0032p833 | Pituitary–Basic (<emphasis role="italic">Generously supported by IPSEN</emphasis>) | ECE2013
Nunes Bruno
, dos Santos Faria Manuel
, Fortunato Rodrigo
, Eurico Nasciutti Luiz
, Renner Urlich
, Stalla Gunter K.
, de Carvalho Denise Pires
, Miranda-Alves Leandro
Connexins are a proteins critically involved in the formation of gap junction, which connect cells with each other and enable the exchange of small compounds and, besides having a role independently of gap junction formation. At least, in the anterior pituitary two cellular networks have already been identified, one of them is composed of the endocrine inactive folliculo-stellate cells and the second one is the GH-producing somatotroph cell network. It is supposed that gap jun...