CNS Targets for GH and IGF-1 BY MADELEINE LE GREVES
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" I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying " Woody Allen (1935-?) Papers included in the thesis This thesis is based on the following papers, which are referred to in the text by their Roman numerals: Blomqvist. Distribution of growth hormone receptor mRNA in the brain stem and spinal cord of the rat. Neuroscience, xx (2004) xxx. In press.creases the level of the gene transcripts of growth hormone receptor and growth hormone binding protein in the male rat hip-pocampus and spinal cord. Growth hormone induces age-dependent alteration in the expression of hippocampal growth hormone receptor and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunits gene transcripts in male rats.related effects of IGF-1 on the NMDA-, GH-and IGF-1 receptor mRNA transcripts in the rat hippocampus. Brain Res Bull. In progress. hormone enhances spatial performance and hippocampal levels of NMDA subunit and PSD-95 transcripts in the hypophysec-tomized rat. Submitted. Reprints were made with permission from the publishers.
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