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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2005 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Endocrinology. 2005 Aug 11;146(11):4737–4744. doi: 10.1210/en.2005-0279

Fig. 4. Effect of 17β-estradiol on the expression of FasL (A) and Fas (B) in lactotropes or somatotropes.

Fig. 4

Anterior pituitary cells from OVX rats were cultured with vehicle (ethanol 1 μl/l, control) or 17β-estradiol (10−9 M, E2). The expression of FasL (A), Fas (B) prolactin (PRL) and GH was detected by double immunocytochemistry. Each column represents the percentage ± CL of immunoreactive cells for FasL or Fas of the total number of lactotropes or somatotropes in each condition. (n = 150–1000 cells/group from at least 2 separate experiments). * p<0.05; ** p<0.01 vs respective control without 17β-estradiol. (χ 2 test).