Positive association between expression of follicle-stimulating hormone and activin β(B)-subunit genes in boars

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 978-982

  Li, Ming D ^a,d   Macdonald, Gordon J ^b   Wise, Thomas ^c   Ford, J Joe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CALMODULIN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; INHIBIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; INHIBINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PREGNANCY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, LHRH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031657529     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.4.978     Document Type: Article

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