Radioimmunoassay of a newt sex pheromone, sodefrin, and the influence of hormones on its level in the abdominal gland

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 356-363

  Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^a   Toyoda, Fumiyo ^b   Tanaka, Shigeyasu ^c   Hayashi, Hiroaki ^d   Kikuyama, Sakae ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GUNMA PREFECTURAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CLOACA; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0030561292     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0181     Document Type: Article

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