The role of thyroxine in the transition of vitellogenin synthesis from noninducibility to inducibility during metamorphosis in Xenopus laevis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 419-430

  May, Felicity E B ^a   Knowland, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RADIOISOTOPE; THIOUREA; THYROXINE; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEREDITY; LIVER; METAMORPHOSIS; METHIONINE S 35; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; LIPOPROTEINS; LIVER; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIOUREA; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS; VITELLOGENIN; XENOPUS;

EID: 0019306067     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(80)90485-6     Document Type: Article

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