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List of works by Francisco Gracia-Navarro

A potential inhibitory role for the new truncated variant of somatostatin receptor 5, sst5TMD4, in pituitary adenomas poorly responsive to somatostatin analogs

scientific article published on 16 March 2010

Ain't misbehavin': reflections on the functional differences among anterior pituitary cells.

scientific article published on October 1996

Amphibian melanotrope subpopulations respond differentially to hypothalamic secreto-inhibitors.

scientific article published in June 2001

Analysis of Rab18 and a new golgin in the secretory pathway.

scientific article published in April 2005

Annulate lamellae in frog adenohypophysis under normal and experimental conditions

scientific article published on 01 November 1980

Application of a Percoll density gradient to separate and enrich porcine pituitary cell types.

scientific article published in June 1993

Cell Heterogeneity as a Reflection of the Secretory Cell Cyclea

scientific article published on May 15, 1998

Correction: The Long Coiled-Coil Protein NECC2 Is Associated to Caveolae and MODULATES NGF/TrkA Signaling IN PC12 CELLS.

scientific article published on 12 September 2013

Cortistatin is not a somatostatin analogue but stimulates prolactin release and inhibits GH and ACTH in a gender-dependent fashion: potential role of ghrelin.

scientific article published on 4 October 2011

Dietary fat alters the expression of cortistatin and ghrelin systems in the PBMCs of elderly subjects: putative implications in the postprandial inflammatory response

scientific article published on 28 July 2014

Different exocytotic morphology in amphibian prolactin and growth hormone cells stimulated in vitro with TRH.

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Differential contribution of nitric oxide and cGMP to the stimulatory effects of growth hormone-releasing hormone and low-concentration somatostatin on growth hormone release from somatotrophs.

scientific article published in September 2005

Differential expression and processing of chromogranin A and secretogranin II in relation to the secretory status of endocrine cells.

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Differential morphometric values induced in Golgi apparatus of higher plant cells by aldehyde and permanganate fixation

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Direct effects of growth hormone (GH)-releasing hexapeptide (GHRP-6) and GH-releasing factor (GRF) on GH secretion from cultured porcine somatotropes.

scientific article published in January 1998

Distribution and characterization of endozepine-like immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the frog Rana ridibunda

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

Effects of ovine CRF on amphibian pituitary ACTH and TSH cells in vivo: A quantitative ultrastructural study

scientific article published on September 1, 1991

Expression of the ghrelin and neurotensin systems is altered in the temporal lobe of Alzheimer's disease patients.

scientific article published on January 2010

Expression of the pituitary transcription factor GHF-1/PIT-1 in cell types of the adult porcine adenohypophysis.

scientific article published on June 1996

Ghrelin gene products, receptors, and GOAT enzyme: biological and pathophysiological insight.

scientific article published on 02 December 2013

Ghrelin induces growth hormone (GH) secretion via nitric oxide (NO)/cGMP signaling

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Growth hormone (GH)-releasing factor differentially activates cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate- and inositol phosphate-dependent pathways to stimulate GH release in two porcine somatotrope subpopulations.

scientific article published in April 1999

Growth hormone-releasing factor mobilizes cytosolic free calcium through different mechanisms in two somatotrope subpopulations from porcine pituitary.

scientific article published in April 1998

Growth kinetics of the Golgi apparatus during the cell cycle in onion root meristems

scientific article published on 01 September 1988

Heterogeneity of growth hormone (GH)-producing cells in aging male rats: in vitro GH releasing activity of somatotrope subpopulations.

scientific article published on October 1996

Heterogeneous response of porcine gonadotrope subpopulations to gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) during postnatal development

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Hormonal storage patterns and morphological heterogeneity of porcine gonadotrope cells during postnatal development

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Identification of the somatostatin receptor subtypes (sst) mediating the divergent, stimulatory/inhibitory actions of somatostatin on growth hormone secretion.

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Immunocytochemical and morphometric study of prolactin cells during amphibian morphogenesis.

scientific article published in February 1988

Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural study of the frog (Rana pipiens) pars distalis with special reference to folliculo-stellate cell function during in vitro superfusion

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

Immunohistochemical detection of adenohypophyseal cells containing hormones in Rana ridibunda

scientific article published on January 1, 1982

Immunohistochemical localization of thyrotropic cells during amphibian morphogenesis: a stereological study

scientific article published on 01 July 1988

Intracellular signaling mechanisms mediating ghrelin-stimulated growth hormone release in somatotropes.

scientific article published on 28 August 2003

Melanotrope Cell Heterogeneity in the Pars Intermedia of Amphibiansa

scientific article published on May 15, 1998

Morphometric evaluation of subcellular changes induced by in vivo TRH treatment in the pituitary gland of Rana perezi: effects on prolactin and thyrotropic cells

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Obestatin plays an opposite role in the regulation of pituitary somatotrope and corticotrope function in female primates and male/female mice.

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Ontogeny of diazepam-binding inhibitor-related peptides (endozepines) in the rat brain.

scientific article published in December 1993

Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) 38 and PACAP27 differentially stimulate growth hormone release and mRNA accumulation in porcine somatotropes.

scientific article published in January 1998

Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide and its receptors in amphibians.

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Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide stimulates calcium mobilization in amphibian pituitary cells

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptides 38 and 27 increase cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration in porcine somatotropes through common and distinct mechanisms

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Porcine sst1 can physically interact with other somatostatin receptors, and its expression is regulated by metabolic/inflammatory sensors.

scientific article published on 24 December 2013

Relationship between melanotrope cell heterogeneity and background adaptation in the frog intermediate lobe.

scientific article published in May 1998

Research progress in the stimulatory inputs regulating growth hormone (GH) secretion.

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Resistin regulates pituitary somatotrope cell function through the activation of multiple signaling pathways.

scientific article published on 9 July 2009

Revisiting the regulated secretory pathway: From frogs to human

scientific article published on August 30, 2011

Role of SST, CORT and ghrelin and its receptors at the endocrine pancreas.

scientific article published on 18 September 2012

Role of endogenous cortistatin in the regulation of ghrelin system expression at pancreatic level under normal and obese conditions

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Separation and characterization of two populations of melanotrope cells from the intermediate lobe of the frog pituitary.

scientific article published in May 1993

Somatostatin and its receptors from fish to mammals.

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Somatostatin at Low Doses Stimulates Growth Hormone Release from Intact Cultures of Porcine Pituitary Cells

scientific article published on April 1, 1998

Stereological study of gonadotropes in the frog, Rana pipiens, after GnRH stimulation in vitro.

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Subcellular responses in frog pituitary gonadotrophic cells to constant environmental conditions: a morphometric study

scientific article published on January 1, 1984

The Golgi-associated long coiled-coil protein NECC1 participates in the control of the regulated secretory pathway in PC12 cells

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

The long coiled-coil protein NECC2 is associated to caveolae and modulates NGF/TrkA signaling in PC12 cells [corrected]

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The oncogenic role of the spliced somatostatin receptor sst5TMD4 variant in prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

The truncated somatostatin receptor sst5TMD4 stimulates the angiogenic process and is associated to lymphatic metastasis and disease-free survival in breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 05 August 2016

Truncated variants of pig somatostatin receptor subtype 5 (sst5) act as dominant-negative modulators for sst2-mediated signaling.

scientific article published on 2 October 2012

Understanding the multifactorial control of growth hormone release by somatotropes: lessons from comparative endocrinology.

scientific article published on April 2009