Insights into a role of GH secretagogues in reversing the age-related decline in the GH/IGF-I axis

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 293, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Frutos, Miriam García San ^a   Cacicedo, Lucinda ^b   Fernández, Carolina ^a   Vicent, David ^a   Velasco, Beatriz ^a   Zapatero, Helena ^a   Sánchez Franco, Franco ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Ghrelin; Growth hormone; Growth hormone decline; Growth hormone secretagogue; Growth hormone releasing peptide 6

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR 6; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR DERIVATIVE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GHRELIN; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SOMATOSTATIN; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 36148992920     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00236.2007     Document Type: Article

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