Vol. 24 (6) 2003 Neuro endocrinology letters

Angiotensins II and IV stimulate the rat anterior pituitary cell proliferation independently of the AT1 receptor subtype.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of angiotensin II (AII) and angiotensin IV (AIV, 3-8 fragment of AII) on the cell proliferation in the anterior pituitary of rat in vivo.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The female adult Wistar rats, ovariectomized 10 days before experiment were injected .....