Involvement of endogenous prolactin in the expression of courtship behavior in the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-196

  Toyoda, Fumiyo ^a   Matsuda, Kouhei ^b   Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^c   Kikuyama, Sakae ^c  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATING; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029877050     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0060     Document Type: Article

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