Catecholamine metabolism in paraganglioma and pheochromocytoma: similar tumors in different sites?

Pheochromocytoma (PHEO) and paraganglioma (PGL) are catecholamine-producing neuroendocrine tumors that arise respectively inside or outside the adrenal medulla. Several reports have shown that adrenal glucocorticoids (GC) play an important regulatory role on the genes encoding the main enzymes invol...

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Main Authors: Eric Grouzmann, Oliver Tschopp, Frédéric Triponez, Maurice Matter, Stefan Bilz, Michael Brändle, Tilman Drechser, Sarah Sigrist, Henryk Zulewski, Christoph Henzen, Stefan Fischli, Karim Abid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4422698?pdf=render