Gonadal and age-related influences on NMDA-induced growth hormone secretion in male rats

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-19

  Pinilla, Leonor ^b   Gonzalez, Lucas ^b   Tena Sempere, Manuel ^b   Dieguez, Carlos ^b   Aguilar, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Excitaton amino acid receptor antagonists; Excitatory amino acid receptors; Gonadal steroids; Growth hormone; Growth hormone releasing hormone; Puberty; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; DIZOCILPINE; ESTROGEN; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RAT; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; AGING; ANIMALS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; ORCHIECTOMY; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0032970557     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054398     Document Type: Article

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