Influence of chronic treatment with the growth hormone secretagogue Ipamorelin, in young female rats: Somatotroph response in vitro

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 707-714

  Jimenez Reina L ^a   Canete R ^a   De La Torre, M J ^a   Bernal, G ^a  

^a Universidad de Cordoba   (Spain)

Author keywords

GH secretagogues; Ipamorelin; Somatotroph cells

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE; HISTIDYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLALANYLTRYPTOPHYL DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLLYSINAMIDE; IPAMORELIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SECRETORY GRANULE; SOMATIC CELL; STAINING;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036061961     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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