Endogenous human growth hormone (GH) modulates the effect of gonadotropin-releasing hormone on pituitary function and the gonadotropin response to the negative feedback effect of testosterone in adult male transgenic mice bearing human GH gene

Endocrinology

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 2717-2722

  Chandrashekar, Varadaraj ^a   Bartke, Andrzej ^a   Wagner, Thomas E ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; FEEDBACK; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN WEIGHT; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0024214054     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-123-6-2717     Document Type: Article

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