Growth hormone heterogeneity: Genes, isohormones, variants, and binding proteins

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 424-449

  Baumann, Gerhard ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; HORMONE PRECURSOR;

HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLACENTA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0025999498     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/edrv-12-4-424     Document Type: Article

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