Endocrine Abstracts

Pituitary tumors are most usual intracranial tumors, displaying hormonal hyper-secretion with in some cases a sustained cell proliferation. The somatotroph adenomas are characterised by a GH hypersecretion. The current treatments are based on somatostatinergic or dopaminergic agonists. Unfortunately, there is steel 50% of patients, which remain insensitive to these treatments. The aim of our work is to find a pharmacological alternative to treat the patients resistant to the c...