Melatonin stimulates the release of growth hormone and prolactin by a possible induction of the expression of frog growth hormone-releasing peptide and its related peptide-2 in the amphibian hypothalamus

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 962-970

  Chowdhury, Vishwajit S ^a   Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^a   Saeki, Izumi ^a   Hasunuma, Itaru ^a   Shimura, Taichi ^a   Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PRALMORELIN; PROLACTIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FROG; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EYE ENUCLEATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MELATONIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND; PROLACTIN; RANA CATESBEIANA; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 40849088087     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-1427     Document Type: Article

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