Dehydroepiandrosterone restoration of growth hormone gene expression in aging female rats, in vivo and in vitro: Evidence for actions via estrogen receptors

Endocrinology

Volumn 146, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 5176-5187

  Iruthayanathan, Mary ^a   Zhou, Yi Hong ^a   Childs, Gwen V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FULVESTRANT; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PRASTERONE; TRILOSTANE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; CELLS, CULTURED; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE-REGULATING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 27844558280     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-0811     Document Type: Article

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