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Hypophysiotropic Peptides and Aging

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Women’s Health in Menopause

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The hypophysiotropic hormones, i.e. thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), growth hormone-releasing and inhibiting hormones (GHRH and somatostatin) produced in the neurosecretory cells of the hypothalamus exert their main function as regulators of the anterior pituitary [1].

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  1. Dipartimento Farmaco-Biologico, University of Bari, Italy

    Daniela Cocchi

  2. Department of Pharmacology, University of Milan, Via Vanvitelli, 32, 20129, Milan, Italy

    Eugenio E. Muller

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    P. G. Crosignani

  2. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    R. Paoletti

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    P. M. Sarrel

  4. Department of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    N. K. Wenger

  5. Clinica Menopausa, Milan, Italy

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Cocchi, D., Muller, E.E. (1994). Hypophysiotropic Peptides and Aging. In: Crosignani, P.G., Paoletti, R., Sarrel, P.M., Wenger, N.K., Meschia, M., Soma, M. (eds) Women’s Health in Menopause. Medical Science Symposia Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1024-2_13

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