Modulation of testicular androgen production in adolescent African catfish (Clarias gariepinus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 56-66

  Schulz, Rüdiger W ^a   Van Der Wind, Florentine ^a   Janssen Dommerholt, Coby ^a   Peute, Jan ^a   Mylonas, Costadinos C ^b   Zohar, Yonathan ^b   Swanson, Penny ^c   Goos, Henk J Th ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Northwest Fisheries Science Centre   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATFISH; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

CLARIAS GARIEPINUS;

EID: 0031260440     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6951     Document Type: Article

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