Retinal Growth Hormone: An Autocrine/paracrine in the Developing Chick Retina

The developing chick retina is an extrapituitary site of growth hormone (GH) synthesis and action. GH, GH receptor (GHR) and their mRNAs are present in the neural retina when the neural cells are undergoing proliferation and differentiation during early embryogenesis. It is thus likely that GH acts...

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Main Author: Lin, Wan-Ying
Other Authors: Steve Harvey (Physiology)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1924