Immunoreactive gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is detected only in the form of chicken GnRH-II within the brain of the green anole, Anolis carolinensis

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 247-257

  Lescheid, David W ^a   Rosen, Greta J ^b   Bridge, Amanda E A ^a   Jones, Richard E ^b   Warby, Carol M ^a   Sherwood, Nancy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CHICKEN; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYDROXYLATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; VERTEBRATE;

ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS;

EID: 0030784948     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6970     Document Type: Article

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