An updated view of hypothalamic-vascular-pituitary unit function and plasticity

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 257-267

  Le Tissier, Paul ^a   Campos, Pauline ^b,c   Lafont, Chrystel ^b,c   Romanò, Nicola ^a   Hodson, David J ^d,e   Mollard, Patrice ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNOMIQUE FONCTIONNELLE   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e Birmingham Women s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE;

ACROMEGALY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NAUSEA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; REVIEW; STIMULUS SECRETION COUPLING; WEANING; ANIMAL; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM;

EID: 85004098303     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.193     Document Type: Review

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