Opioid-receptor blockade blunts growth hormone (GH) secretion induced by GH-releasing hormone in the human male

Hormone and Metabolic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 34-36

  Tomasi, P A ^a,b   Fanciulli, C ^a   Palermo, M ^a   Pala, A ^a   Demontis, M A ^a   Delitala, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b Ist di Ematologia e di Endocrinol   (Italy)

Author keywords

GH; GHRH; Hypothalamus; Naloxone; Opioids; Pituitary gland

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031951406     PISSN: 00185043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-978827     Document Type: Article

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