Evidence for diverse pathways of hypophysiotropic hormone transport in mammals

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 365-374

  Anthony, Edythe L p ^a   Overdeep, Patricia A ^a   Bruhn, Thomas O ^b   Gustafson, Alvar W ^c  

^a RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Inst Zellbiochemie Klin N   (Germany)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat; Ferret; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Growth hormone releasing hormone; Human; Hypophysiotropic hormones; Monkey; Pituitary portal system

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FERRET; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HYPOPHYSIS; MAMMAL; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; MAMMALS; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PITUITARY HORMONES, POSTERIOR;

EID: 0032098476     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(98)00024-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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