Endocrine Abstracts

Hypoxia is a primary stimulus for angiogenesis, which is important for tumour proliferation and survival. The effects of hypoxia on parathyroid tumour cells, which may be important for parathyroid autotransplantation in patients, are however, not known. We therefore assessed the effects of hypoxia on gene expression in parathyroid adenoma cells from patients with primary hyperparathyoridism. Cell suspensions from human parathyroid adenomas (n=5) were cultured and afte...