Use of a radioimmunoassay which detects C21 steroids with a 5β- reduced, 3α-hydroxylated configuration to identify and measure steroids involved in final oocyte maturation in female plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-61

  Inbaraj, R Moses ^a,b   Scott, A P ^a   Vermeirssen, E L M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELTANOLONE; STEROID; TETRAHYDROCORTISONE; ANTISERUM; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; PREGNANETRIOL; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TELEOST; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROSS REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; IMMUNE SERA; MATURATION-PROMOTING FACTOR; OOCYTES; PREGNANETRIOL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRITIUM;

EID: 0030614523     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.6797     Document Type: Article

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