Melatonin stimulates thyroid-stimulating hormone accumulation in the thyrotropes of the rat pars tuberalis

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 213-218

  Sakamoto, Shinya ^a   Nakamura, Kazuaki ^a   Inoue, Kinji ^a   Sakai, Takafumi ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Melatonin; Rat pars tuberalis; Thyroid stimulating hormone; Thyrotropes

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SECRETORY GRANULE; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

EID: 0033778493     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180000188     Document Type: Article

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