Increased pituitary growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF) receptor messenger ribonucleic acid expression in food-deprived rats

Brain Research

Volumn 742, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 355-358

  Sugihara, Hitoshi ^a   Emoto, Naoya ^a   Shibasaki, Tamotsu ^a   Minami, Shiro ^a   Wakabayashi, Ichiji ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

food deprivation; GRF receptor; growth hormone releasing factor (GRF); rat

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030566699     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01100-6     Document Type: Article

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