Growth hormone secretagogue (GHS) analogue, hexarelin stimulates GH from peripheral lymphocytes

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 343-347

  Poppi, L ^a   Dixit, V D ^a   Baratta, M ^a   Giustina, A ^a   Tamanini, C ^a   Parvizi, N ^a  

^a Institute for Animal Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bovine; GH secretagogues; Immunoendocrine interactions; Lymphocytes; Porcine

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE DERIVATIVE; HEXARELIN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; LYMPHOCYTES; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SOMATOSTATIN; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 0036802843     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-34991     Document Type: Article

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