Neurohypophyseal and fluid homeostasis in transgenic rats expressing a tagged rat vasopressin prepropeptide in hypothalamic neurons

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 5068-5077

  Waller, Sarah ^a   Fairhall, Keith M ^b   Xu, Jing ^a   Robinson, Iain C A F ^b   Murphy, David ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID BALANCE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

EID: 0029805489     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.11.8895381     Document Type: Article

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