Neuromedin-U stimulates enucleation-induced adrenocortical regeneration in the rat
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Neuromedin-U stimulates enucleation-induced adrenocortical regeneration in the rat.
Neuromedin-U (NMU) is a brain-gut peptide, which has been previously found to stimulate hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the rat. Enucleation-induced adrenal regeneration in rats with contralateral adrenalectomy is a well-established model of adrenal growth, that not only depends on the compensatory ACTH hypersecretion, but is also modulated by several regulatory peptides. Hence, we inves...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Molecular Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1107-3756,1791-244X
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.21.6.683