Acromegaly pathogenesis and treatment

S Melmed - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2009 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Dysregulated growth hormone (GH) hypersecretion is usually caused by a GH-secreting
pituitary adenoma and leads to acromegaly—a disorder of disproportionate skeletal, tissue …

Advances in the treatment of prolactinomas

MP Gillam, ME Molitch, G Lombardi… - Endocrine …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Prolactinomas account for approximately 40% of all pituitary adenomas and are an
important cause of hypogonadism and infertility. The ultimate goal of therapy for …

Pathogenesis of pituitary tumors

S Melmed - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2011 - nature.com
Pituitary adenomas may hypersecrete hormones (including prolactin, growth hormone and
adrenocorticotropic hormone, and rarely follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone or …

Mitotic chromosomal instability and cancer: mouse modelling of the human disease

JM Schvartzman, R Sotillo, R Benezra - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2010 - nature.com
The stepwise progression from an early dysplastic lesion to full-blown metastatic malignancy
is associated with increases in genomic instability. Mitotic chromosomal instability—the …

Aneuploidy and chromosomal instability in cancer: a jackpot to chaos

M Giam, G Rancati - Cell division, 2015 - Springer
Genomic instability (GIN) is a hallmark of cancer cells that facilitates the acquisition of
mutations conferring aggressive or drug-resistant phenotypes during cancer evolution …

Pituitary tumor-transforming gene: physiology and implications for tumorigenesis

G Vlotides, T Eigler, S Melmed - Endocrine reviews, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Pituitary tumor-transforming gene-1 (PTTG1) is overexpressed in a variety of endocrine-
related tumors, especially pituitary, thyroid, breast, ovarian, and uterine tumors, as well as …

Loss of function of the tumor suppressor DKC1 perturbs p27 translation control and contributes to pituitary tumorigenesis

C Bellodi, O Krasnykh, N Haynes, M Theodoropoulou… - Cancer research, 2010 - AACR
Mutations in DKC1, encoding for dyskerin, a pseudouridine synthase that modifies rRNA
and regulates telomerase activity, are associated with ribosomal dysfunction and increased …

DNA damage and growth hormone hypersecretion in pituitary somatotroph adenomas

A Ben-Shlomo, N Deng, E Ding… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Drivers of sporadic benign pituitary adenoma growth are largely unknown. Whole-exome
sequencing of 159 prospectively resected pituitary adenomas showed that somatic copy …

Pituitary tumour transforming gene (PTTG) expression correlates with the proliferative activity and recurrence status of pituitary adenomas: a clinical and …

M Filippella, F Galland, M Kujas, J Young… - Clinical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Background The pituitary tumour transforming gene (pttg) plays a central role in pituitary
tumorigenesis, but PTTG protein expression is poorly documented and its relationship with …

The two sides of chromosomal instability: drivers and brakes in cancer

R Hosea, S Hillary, S Naqvi, S Wu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and is associated with tumor cell
malignancy. CIN triggers a chain reaction in cells leading to chromosomal abnormalities …