Development of cushing’s syndrome in corticotropin-releasing factor transgenic mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 3378-3386

  Stenzel Poore, M P ^a   Cameron, V A ^a   Vaughan, J ^a   Sawchenko, P E ^b   Vale, W ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA PROBES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026659272     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.130.6.1597149     Document Type: Article

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