A receptor in pituitary and hypothalamus that functions in growth hormone release - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1996 Aug 16;273(5277):974-7.

doi: 10.1126/science.273.5277.974.

S D Feighner, D F Cully, J P Arena, P A Liberator, C I Rosenblum, M Hamelin, D L Hreniuk, O C Palyha, J Anderson, P S Paress, C Diaz, M Chou, K K Liu, K K McKee, S S Pong, L Y Chaung, A Elbrecht, M Dashkevicz, R Heavens, M Rigby, D J Sirinathsinghji, D C Dean, D G Melillo, A A Patchett, R Nargund, P R Griffin, J A DeMartino, S K Gupta, J M Schaeffer, R G Smith, L H Van der Ploeg

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A receptor in pituitary and hypothalamus that functions in growth hormone release

A D Howard et al. Science. 1996.

Abstract

Small synthetic molecules termed growth hormone secretagogues (GHSs) act on the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus to stimulate and amplify pulsatile growth hormone (GH) release. A heterotrimeric GTP-binding protein (G protein)-coupled receptor (GPC-R) of the pituitary and arcuate ventro-medial and infundibular hypothalamus of swine and humans was cloned and was shown to be the target of the GHSs. On the basis of its pharmacological and molecular characterization, this GPC-R defines a neuroendocrine pathway for the control of pulsatile GH release and supports the notion that the GHSs mimic an undiscovered hormone.

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