Effects of centrally applied somatostatin on pituitary adrenocorticotropes in female rats

Pharmacology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 203-207

  Starčević, Vesna ^a   Milošević, Verica ^b   Brkić, Branislava ^c   Severs, Walter B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c Clinical Centre Dr Dragisa Misovic ^*

^d PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH cells; Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Central nervous system; Pituitary; Rats; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; PEROXIDASE; SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN 14; SOMATOSTATIN 28;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0342804287     PISSN: 00317012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028370     Document Type: Article

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