Direct modification of somatotrope function by long-term leptin treatment of primary cultured ovine pituitary cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 5167-5171

  Roh, Sang Gun ^a,b   Nie, Gui Ying ^a   Loneragan, Kylie ^a   Gertler, Arieh ^c   Chen, Chen ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; RECOMBINANT LEPTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENERGY BALANCE; GENETIC CODE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035210714     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.142.12.8559     Document Type: Article

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