Influence of ghrelin on energy balance and endocrine physiology

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 749-756

  Komarowska, Hanna ^a   Jaskuła, Magdalena ^a   Stangierski, Adam ^a   Waśko, Ryszard ^a   Sowiński, Jerzy ^a   Ruchała, Marek ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ghrelin; GHS receptor (GHS R); Growth hormone secretagogues (GHS); Obesity; Ovaries; Pituitary; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GHRELIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN;

ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GONAD FUNCTION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METABOLIC REGULATION; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS; THYROID FUNCTION;

EID: 84874791240     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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