Angiotensins II and IV stimulate the rat anterior pituitary cell proliferation independently of the AT1 receptor subtype

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 397-400

  Ptasinska Wnuk, Dorota ^a   Kunert Radek, Jolanta ^a   Pawlikowski, Marek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; Angiotensin IV; AT1 receptor; Losartan; Pituitary; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN II [3-8]; BROXURIDINE; LOSARTAN; NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LABELING INDEX; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

EID: 0347693082     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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