Pituitary relationship of gonadotropins and messenger ribonucleic acid for gonadotropin subunits in white composite and Meishan boars

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 154-159

  Zanella, Eraldo L ^a   Ford, J Joe ^b   Wise, Tom ^b   Hamernik, Debora L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUS SCROFA;

FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SWINE;

ANIMAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA PROBES; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; ORCHIECTOMY; PITUITARY GLAND; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SWINE;

EID: 0029656019     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.1.154     Document Type: Article

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