Arginine Increases Growth Hormone Gene Expression in Rat Pituitary and GH3 Cells

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-33

  Adrião, Manoel ^a   Chrisman, Carolina J S ^b   Bielavsky, Monica ^b   Olinto, Silvia C F ^b   Shiraishi, Emilia M ^b   Nunes, Maria Tereza ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arginine; GH3 cells; Growth hormone

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; CITRULLINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NYLON; ORNITARGIN; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS 32; RNA; RNA 18S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL STRAIN GH3; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA PROBE; SOMATOSTATIN RELEASE; STIMULATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARGININE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CITRULLINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH HORMONE; MALE; ORNITHINE; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 1042304331     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076043     Document Type: Article

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