Pituitary gonadotrophs are strongly activated at the beginning of spermatogenesis in African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 139-147

  Schulz, Rüdiger W ^a   Zandbergen, Matthijs A ^a   Peute, Jan ^a   Bogerd, Jan ^a   Van Dijk, Wytske ^a   Goos, Henk J Th ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CATFISH; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROBE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATFISHES; DNA PRIMERS; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS;

EID: 0030968656     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.139     Document Type: Article

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