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This immunohistological study of the anterior pituitary gland in Snell-Bagg dwarf mice demonstrates a total absence therein of somatotropic, prolactin and thyrotropic cells. Gonadotropic, melanocorticotropic, LPH- and endorphin-positive cells are well developed; they appear to be hypertrophied and more numerous than in normal animals.
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Roux, M., Bartke, A., Dumont, F. et al. Immunohistological study of the anterior pituitary gland — pars distalis and pars intermedia — in dwarf mice. Cell Tissue Res. 223, 415–420 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01258498
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