Rat anterior pituitary hormone cells: Responses to variable gravity

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6 SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Shellenberger, Kathy E ^a   Grindeland, Richard E ^b   Hymer, W C ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c 108 Althouse Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAVITY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE CELL BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL SIZE; CENTRIFUGATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPERGRAVITY; HYPOGRAVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROLACTIN; RATS; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031779925     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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