Galanin: An unassuming neuropeptide moves to center stage in reproduction

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 301-306

  Cheung, Clement C ^b   Clifton, Donald K ^b   Steiner, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; GALANIN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

EID: 0030272165     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-2760(96)00128-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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