A mouse with targeted ablation of the growth hormone-releasing hormone gene: A new model of isolated growth hormone deficiency

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4134-4143

  Alba, Maria ^b   Salvatori, Roberto ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEOMYCIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); FEMALE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH RETARDATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPLASIA; KNOCKOUT GENE; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN CONTENT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LIVER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE-REGULATING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 4344649944     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2004-0119     Document Type: Article

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