Growth hormone-releasing hormone and somatostatin concentrations in the hypophysial portal blood of conscious sheep during the infusion of growth hormone-releasing peptide-6

Domestic Animal Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 251-258

  Fletcher, T P ^a,c   Thomas, G B ^a,b   Clarke, I J ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING HEXAPEPTIDE; HORMONE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; SHEEP; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONES; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PITUITARY GLAND; PORTAL SYSTEM; SHEEP; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 0030137205     PISSN: 07397240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0739-7240(96)00017-3     Document Type: Article

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