Multifactorial modulation of TRH metabolism

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-247

  Joseph Bravo, P ^a   Uribe, R M ^a   Vargas, M A ^a   Perez Martinez L ^a   Zoeller, T ^b   Charli, J L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold; Convertases; Glucocorticoids; Lactotroph; Neuroendocrine regulation; Paraventricular nucleus; PC1; PC2; Pyroglutamyl peptidase II; Suckling; Thyroid hormones; Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH); TRH mRNA

Indexed keywords

5 OXOPROLYL PEPTIDASE; CYCLIC AMP; DEXAMETHASONE; DOPAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; PHORBOL ESTER; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SOMATOSTATIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; COLD STRESS; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; REVIEW; SUCKLING; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 0031886254     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022521020840     Document Type: Review

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