Ghrelin strongly stimulates growth hormone (GH) release in humans

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4908-4911

  Takaya, Kazuhiko ^a   Ariyasu, Hiroyuki ^a   Kanamoto, Naotetsu ^a   Iwakura, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshimoto, Akihiro ^a   Harada, Masaki ^a   Mori, Kiyoshi ^a   Komatsu, Yasato ^a   Usui, Takeshi ^b   Shimatsu, Akira ^b   Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Hosoda, Kiminori ^a   Akamizu, Takashi ^a   Kojima, Masayasu ^c   Kangawa, Kenji ^c   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; LIGAND; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0040184557     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.85.12.7167     Document Type: Article

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