Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone release in response to thyrotropin releasing hormone in healthy horses, horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction and equine pars intermedia explants

Domestic Animal Endocrinology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 276-288

  McFarlane, Dianne ^a   Beech, Jill ^b   Cribb, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Equine Cushing's disease; MSH; Pituitary pars intermedia; Thyrotropin releasing hormone

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTIRELIN; PROTIRELIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33646050624     PISSN: 07397240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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