title: [Current morphological methods in the study of endocrine tumors and their receptors].
abstract: The authors review the recent development of methods aimed at characterizing endocrine tumours. With new immunocytochemical methods, not only specific hormonal peptides can be identified but also hormonal precursors and their sites of processing. Immunodensitometry allows to quantify the hormonal cellular load and to assess hormonal synthesis via the precursors. Finally hormonal receptors can be identified by various techniques of autoradiography.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgique.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rahier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haot
mesh_terms: D004701:Endocrine Gland Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface
vernacular_title: Nouvelles méthodes morphologiques dans l'étude des tumeurs endocrines et de leurs récepteurs.