Diverse effects of glucocorticoids on the hypothalamic pituitary axis in rat growth hormone secretion

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 43, Issue SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Ohyama, Tomoyo ^a   Sato, Makoto ^a   Wada, Yoshinaru ^a   Takahara, Jiro ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GH; GH releasing hormone; Glucocorticoids; Rat; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RAT;

EID: 0030443076     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.43.suppl_s115     Document Type: Article

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