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CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.

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Vale, "Rat anterior pituitary folliculostellate cells are targets of interleukin-1[alpha] and a major source of intrapituitary follistatin," Endocrinology, vol.

Inflammation and LPS-Binding Protein Enable the Stimulatory Effect of Endotoxin on Prolactin Secretion in the Ovine Anterior Pituitary: Ex Vivo Study

The effect of IL-1[beta] on gonadotropes could be also mediated via folliculostellate cells. Folliculostellate cells play an important role as a source of paracrine factors that act locally to modulate pituitary responses to hypothalamic and peripheral signals.

LPS-induced inflammation potentiates the IL-1[beta]-mediated reduction of LH secretion from the anterior pituitary explants

Curcumin inhibits the growth, induces apoptosis and modulates the function of pituitary folliculostellate cells. Neuroendocrinology.