Prolactin and growth hormone production as influenced by catecholamines and agents that affect brain catecholamines

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 6, Issue 5-6, 1970, Pages 283-294

  MacLeod, Robert M ^a   Fontham, Elizabeth H ^a   Lehmeyer, Joyce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; Hypothalamus; Monoamine oxidase inhibitors; Pituitary; Prolactin; Tumors

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; DOPAMINE; GROWTH HORMONE; GUANETHIDINE; IPRONIAZID; LEUCINE; PARGYLINE; PERPHENAZINE; PROLACTIN; RESERPINE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; STIMULATION;

ANIMAL; CATECHOLAMINES; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GUANETHIDINE; IN VITRO; IPRONIAZID; LEUCINE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PARGYLINE; PERPHENAZINE; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN; RATS; RESERPINE; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TRITIUM;

EID: 0014913590     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000121933     Document Type: Article

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