Endocrine Abstracts

Cell developmental studies have frequently used the hypophysis as a model for complex differentiation pathways. Nevertheless, many of this work has been focused on the hormone-producing cell types of the anterior pituitary (AP), whereas the so-called folliculo-stellate cells (FS cells) have often been ignored in these studies. FS cells form an enigmatic, non-hormone-secreting cell group. Initially designated as supportive cells, they were soon found to be the putative source o...