Ontogeny of basal and regulated proopiomelanocortin-derived peptide secretion from fetal and neonatal pituitary intermediate lobe cells: Melanotrophs exhibit transient glucocorticoid responses during development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 110-118

  Lugo, Delia Ines ^a,b   Pintar, John E ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ENDORPHIN; ERGOCRYPTINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030022073     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0010     Document Type: Article

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