Growth hormone-releasing activity of thymulin on pituitary somatotropes is age dependent

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-27

  Brown, Oscar A ^c   Sosa, Yolanda E ^c   Dardenne, Mireille ^a   Pléau, Jean Marie ^a   Goya, Rodolfo G ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOQUÍMICAS DE LA PLATA INIBIOLP   (Argentina)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Calcium; Cyclic AMP; Growth hormone; Phosphoinositides; Somatotropes; Thymulin

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM; CYCLIC AMP; EGTAZIC ACID; FLUORIDE SODIUM; FORSKOLIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HISTIDYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLALANYLTRYPTOPHYL DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLLYSINAMIDE; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; THYMULIN; TRIFLUOPERAZINE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CAFFEINE; CELL LINE; CYCLIC AMP; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM FLUORIDE; THYMIC FACTOR, CIRCULATING;

EID: 0032972658     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054399     Document Type: Article

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