Regulation of the Ghrelin gene: Growth hormone-releasing hormone upregulates Ghrelin mRNA in the pituitary

Endocrinology

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 4154-4157

  Kamegai, Jun ^a   Tamura, Hideki ^a   Shimizu, Takako ^a   Ishii, Shinya ^a   Sugihara, Hitoshi ^a   Oikawa, Shinichi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034878898     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.142.9.8492     Document Type: Article

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