Oxytocin was isolated and synthesized for the first time by Vincent du Vigneaud in 1953, work for which he received two years later, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Since then, it has been one of the research fields to the ...

Silicon (Si) and salicylic acid (SA) foliar applications can benefit cotton yield especially if there is stress during cultivation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the foliar application of Si and SA on the ...

In vitro culture protocols have been developed for many species, mainly using empirical approaches, to induce somatic embryogenesis from various explant types. However, the underlying biochemical mechanisms governing ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate a possible direct, growth hormone-releasing, hormone-independent action of a growth hormone secretagogue, GHRP-2, in pituitary somatotroph cells in the presence of inactive growth hormone-releasing ...

OBJECTIVE Chronic hypercortisolism is associated with decreased OH responsiveness to GHRH, GHRP-6 is a synthetic hexapeptide that releases GH in several species, including man, As GHRH and GHRP-6 apparently stimulate GH ...

Sex hormones are oft en administered to mice in vaginal microbial studies in order to synchronize estrous. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of estradiol-hemi succinate (EH) or medroxyprogest erone-acetate (MPA) ...

Hormones are likely to be important factors modulating the light-dependent anthocyanin accumulation. Here we analyzed anthocyanin contents in hypocotyls of near isogenic Micro-Tom (MT) tomato lines carrying hormone and ...