Effect of intravenous or intracerebroventricular injections of his-d-trp-ala-trp-d-phe-lys-nh2 on gh release in conscious, freely moving male rats

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 198-206

  Yagi, Hiroji ^a   Kaji, Hidesuke ^a   Sato, Michiaki ^a   Okimura, Yasuhiko ^a   Chihara, Kazuo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonadal steroids; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Growth hormone; Growth hormone releasing peptide; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HISTIDYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLALANYLTRYPTOPHYL DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLLYSINAMIDE; SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 0030071503     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000126958     Document Type: Article

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