Effects of adrenalectomy and glucocorticoid receptor antagonist, RU38486, on pituitary growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor gene expression in rats

Peptides

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1063-1067

  Ohyama, Tomoyo ^a   Sato, Makoto ^a   Ohye, Hidemi ^a   Murao, Koji ^a   Niimi, Michio ^a   Takahara, Jiro ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Glucocorticoid; Growth hormone releasing hormone; Rat; RU38486

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH HORMONE; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; PITUITARY GLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE-REGULATING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031877720     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(97)00472-5     Document Type: Article

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