Endocrine Abstracts

GH-secreting and non-functioning pituitary tumors are clinically distinct, usually benign but potentially locally aggressive lesions originating from the replication of a single mutated pituitary cell. As for the underlying genetic and epigenetic alterations, also the patterns of activation of specific signaling pathways as well as the prognostic molecular factors leading to local invasiveness are, to date, largely unknown. In this study, we used two-dimensional electrophoresi...