Urinary excretion of the TRH-like peptide pyroglutamyl-glutamyl- prolineamide in rats

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 411-421

  Klootwijk, W ^a   De Boer, R D H ^a   Sleddens Linkels, E ^a   Cockle, S M ^b   De Herder, W W ^a   Bauer, K ^c   Visser, T J ^a   De Greef, W J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYROGLUTAMYLGLUTAMYLPROLINAMIDE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0030981463     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1530411     Document Type: Article

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