Role of neuromedin B in the in vitro thyrotropin release in response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone from anterior pituitaries of eu-, hypo-, and hyperthyroid rats

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 353-358

  Pazos Moura, Carmen C ^a   Moura, Egberto G ^b   Rettori, Valeria ^c   Polak, Julia ^d   McCann, Samuel M ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Centre de Estudios Farmacologicos y Botanicos   (Argentina)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBESIN RECEPTOR; NEUROMEDIN B; PROTIRELIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029874037     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-211-43980     Document Type: Article

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