Presence and activity of compounds with GnRH-like activity in the ovary of seabream Sparus aurata

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 1 41-1, 1997, Pages

  Nabissi, Massimo ^b   Pati, Debananda ^b   Polzonetti Magni, Alberta M ^b   Habibi, Hamid R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

chicken gonadotropin releasing hormone; gonadotropin releasing hormone; luteinizing hormone releasing hormone; oocytes; salmon gonadotropin releasing hormone

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOTHESIS; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

SPARUS AURATA;

EID: 0031013691     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.272.1.r111     Document Type: Article

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