1 © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org Neurofibromin regulates somatic growth through the hypothalamic- pituitary axis Balazs Hegedus, 1 Tu-Hsueh Yeh, 1, 2 Da Yong Lee, 1 Ryan J. Emnett, 1 Jia Li, 1 and David H. Gutmann 1, * 1 Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA, 2 Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and University, Taipei, Taiwan Running Head: Nf1 regulates somatic growth in mice Key words: neurofibromin, hypothalamus, pituitary, growth hormone, cAMP, Ras *Corresponding author. David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, Box 8111; 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis MO 63110. Email (gutmannd@wustl.edu). HMG Advance Access published July 9, 2008 by guest on June 19, 2015 http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from