Leptin and the pituitary

Pituitary

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 7-14

  Popovic, V ^a,b   Damjanovic, S ^a,b   Dieguez, C ^a,b   Casanueva, F F ^a,b  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Leptin; Paracrine action; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPERPITUITARISM; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SECRETORY CELL; SECRETORY GRANULE; STELLATE CELL;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; CUSHING SYNDROME; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEPTIN; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN;

EID: 0035692797     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012938308654     Document Type: Article

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