Immunostimulants are valuable for the control of fish diseases and may be useful in fish
culture. The immunostimulatory effects of glucan, chitin, lactoferrin and levamisole for fish …

An extensive literature suggesting that PRL, GH, IGF-I, and thyroid hormones play an
important role in immunity has evolved. Because the use of one or more of these hormones …

Background: Elderly persons who have osteoporotic hip fracture are often undernourished,
particularly with respect to protein. Protein malnutrition may contribute to the occurrence and …

Somatogenic Hormones and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1: Stimulators of Lymphopoiesis and
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Background: Growth hormone–deficient adults have increased cardiovascular mortality.
Growth hormone replacement may affect cardiovascular risk. Inflammation plays an …

Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) plays a pivotal role in cattle fertility, acting as a monitoring
signal that allows reproductive events to occur when nutritional conditions for successful …

In recent years many efforts have been undertaken to elucidate the complex interactions
between mediators of the endocrine system and the immune system. The main effector of …

At a given age, bone mass is determined by the amount of bone accumulated at the end of
skeletal growth (the so-called peak bone mass), and by the amount of bone lost …

The female predominance in several autoimmune diseases suggests a role for sex steroid
hormones in disease susceptibility. We therefore investigated to what extent sex hormones …

Diseases in fish are serious problems for the development of aquaculture. The outbreak of
fish disease is largely dependent on environmental and endogenous factors resulting in …