Endocrine Abstracts

Corticotrope cells give arise to utmost aggressive and to very rare pituitary neoplasias, including pituitary carcinomas, Crooke’s cell adenomas (CCA), clinically non-functioning silent corticotrope adenomas (SCA) and the Cushing-provoking pituitary adenomas (CD). The molecular etiopathogenesis of these tumors are still poorly understood. Therefore, we carried out whole exome sequencing to better understand the full genomic landscape single nucleotide variants and copy nu...

The tumor microenvironment (TME) includes diverse cellular components such as mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and immune cells. MSC are a subset of heterogeneous cell populations characterized by the expression of CD105, CD73, and CD90 that can differentiate into chondrocytes, osteoblasts, and adipocytes in vitro. They are known to have immunomodulatory capabilities. Our aim was to isolate and characterize the immunomodulatory capabilities of MSC from pituitary tumors (P...

Pituitary adenomas (PA) are primarily benign lesions with monoclonal origins from the adenohypophyseal cells and represent 10-15% of all intracranial tumors. Tumors derived from POU1F1 cell lineage are GH-, TSH-, and PRL-secreting tumors that cause important syndromes such as acromegaly, hyperthyroidism, and sexual dysfunction, respectively. Surgical resection is the first line of treatment; the secondary treatment is pharmacological; despite having targets pharmacological in ...

Pituitary tumors (PT) represent 20% of all intracranial neoplasms. Some behave aggressively, growing rapidly and invading surrounding tissues, with high recurrence rates and are frequently resistant to conventional therapies. We performed exome and transcriptome sequencing, as well as methylation profiling of primary and recurrent PT of the same patient. The cohort consisted of patients with GH- and gonadotropin-producing PT and a patient with an ACTH carcinom...