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.
Rahier, J., & Haot, J. (1993). [New Morphological Methods for the Study of Endocrine Tumors and of Their Receptors]. Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica (Multilingual Edition), 56(3-4), 264-265. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/44879 (Original work published 1993)