Endocrine Abstracts

The pituitary gland that synthesises and secretes pituitary hormones is an indispensable endocrine organ. Its development progresses by plural factors. Among them, neuronatin (NNAT), which was discovered in the neonatal mouse brain and is involved in neural development, was later revealed to be an abundantly expressing gene in the pituitary gland, but its role is yet elusive.We analysed the expression profile of Nnat and its localisation in the ...