Endocrine Abstracts

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...