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A specific antibody to detect transcription factor T-Pit: a reliable marker of corticotroph cell differentiation and a tool to improve the classification of pituitary neuroendocrine tumours

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This work was supported by The Swedish Cancer Society, Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation and ALF-funding from the Uppsala University Hospital in Uppsala.

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  1. Science for Life Laboratory, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Evelina Sjöstedt & Jan Mulder

  2. Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Evelina Sjöstedt, Cecilia Lindskog, Fredrik Pontén & Olivera Casar-Borota

  3. Department of Specialized Endocrinology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Jens Bollerslev

  4. Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Jens Bollerslev

  5. Department of Clinical Pathology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    Fredrik Pontén & Olivera Casar-Borota

  6. Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Olivera Casar-Borota

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Fredrik Pontén is a co-founder of Atlas Antibodies. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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All patients whose tumour tissues have been used in the study provided written informed consent, and the regional ethical committee approved the project.

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A new version of the Human Protein Atlas is released annually. The next version will include full protein profiling and validation data for the HPA072686 antibody; thereafter, this antibody will also become available through Atlas Antibodies (Stockholm, Sweden).

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Sjöstedt, E., Bollerslev, J., Mulder, J. et al. A specific antibody to detect transcription factor T-Pit: a reliable marker of corticotroph cell differentiation and a tool to improve the classification of pituitary neuroendocrine tumours. Acta Neuropathol 134, 675–677 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-017-1768-9

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