The tyrosine hydroxylase-human growth hormone (GH) transgenic mouse as a model of hypothalamic GH deficiency: Growth retardation is the result of a selective reduction in somatotrope numbers despite normal somatotrope function

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4630-4636

  Kineman, Rhonda D ^a   Aleppo, Grazia ^a   Frohman, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH RETARDATION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0029852254     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.11.8895326     Document Type: Article

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