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Record W1981060309 · doi:10.1159/000125044

Human Fetal Adenohypophysis

2008· article· en· W1981060309 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNeuroendocrinology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGrowth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
Canadian institutionsUniversity of ManitobaHealth Sciences CentreUniversity of TorontoSt. Michael's Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSomatotropic cellThyrotropic cellInternal medicineGonadotropic cellEndocrinologyProlactin cellBiologyCorticotropic cellPituitary glandAnterior pituitaryProlactinFetusHormoneMedicinePregnancy

Abstract

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The pituitary glands were removed from 63 human fetuses from 5 weeks of gestation to term and studied by electron microscopy and ultrastructural immunocytochemistry to document the development of cell differentiation and hormone production in the adenohypophysis. At 5 weeks of gestation, Rathke’s cleft was lined by columnar epithelium with abundant cytoplasmic glycogen and occasional secretory granules. By 6 weeks of gestation, cells resembling corticotrophs were identified; in 8-week-old fetuses, type I microfilaments were found in those cells. Well-differentiated somatotrophs were seen in adenohypophyses of 8- to 9-week-old fetuses. Although secretory granules were numerous, the Golgi complex was inconspicuous in early fetal glands. After 10 weeks of gestation, there was a change with morphologic evidence of active hormone secretion; large Golgi regions and sparsely granulated cells were found. Some somatotrophs at this stage contained aggregates of type II microfilaments which resembled the fibrous bodies of sparsely granulated somatotroph adenomas. Densely granulated mammosomatotrophs containing growth hormone and prolactin were identified at 12 weeks of gestation. Cells with characteristics of the glycoprotein hormone cell line were seen in pituitaries at 12 weeks of gestation; thyrotrophs and gonadotrophs were identified after 15 weeks. Typical lactotrophs were not recognized before 23 weeks, but were numerous in pituitaries of fetuses older than 35 weeks. This study documents for the first time the existence of a bihormonal mammosomatotroph in the human fetal pituitary and confirms that somatotrophs and lactotrophs, the two acidophil cell types, are embryologically related. Sparsely granulated somatotrophs appear after densely granulated somatotrophs at a time when fetal serum growth hormone reaches acromegalic levels, and it may be that the two cell types reflect differences in the hormonal milieu. The ultrastructural features of developing adenohypophysial cells resemble those of adenomas found in adult pituitaries, and fetal cytodifferentiation may help to clarify the significance of morphologic variants of adenomas.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.357
Threshold uncertainty score0.916

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it