title: Pathology of peptide-producing neuroendocrine tumours.
abstract: The classic view of endocrinology as the study of a group of glands containing specialized endocrine cells, releasing substances that act at a distance, has been seriously questioned in recent years. The main reason for this was the discovery that endocrine cells are diffusely distributed through most body tissues and intermingled between nonendocrine elements.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Polak
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Bloom
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D001079:Apudoma / Q000378:metabolism*; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000378:metabolism; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D005935:Glucagonoma / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007340:Insulinoma / Q000378:metabolism; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D009375:Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D010455:Peptides / Q000378:metabolism*; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism; D015043:Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides