pituitary extract

Three different human pituitary extracts containing prolactin were subsequently obtained as candidates for an IS.

On the positive side, the administration of preparations of pituitary extracts to animals can cause the thyroid gland to increase in weight and become more active.

In commercial operations, spawning is often stimulated using a process called hypophysation, where lyophilized pituitary extract is injected into the fish.

Some-like the ergot Larch used to make the uterus contract after delivery, and pituitary extract- directly affected the uterus.

The posterior pituitary extract had an opposite effect and was therefore felt to contain an antidiuretic hormone, usually referred to by the abbreviation ADH.

However the main way that full growth of oocytes is achieved is by repeated injections of salmon pituitary extracts, and also additions of other hormones.

Despite being less pure than pituitary extracts from sheep, goats or swine, PMSG tends to be used because of its longer circulatory half-life.

After graduating, he quickly developed and presented his M.D. thesis on the physiological activities of pituitary extracts, published in 1911, a theme he would pursue for the rest of his scientific career.

The American biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud and his associates obtained two pure substances from the posterior pituitary extracts, of which one possessed the blood-pressure-raising effect and was named vasopressin and the other possessed the uterus-stimulating effect and was named oxytocin.

Fibroblast growth factor was found in pituitary extracts by Armelin in 1973 and then was also found in a cow brain extract by Gospodarowicz, et al., and tested in a bioassay that caused fibroblasts to proliferate (first published report in 1974).

He gave her a shot of pituitary extract; shortly she starts to deliver another one-a black and white male (Blarney Stone); poor little Blarney didn't make it... hung up in delivery, dead by the time we could get him out, although as lively as could be as he came part way out.