Gonadotropin-I and -II subunit gene expression of male striped bass (Morone saxatilis) after gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue injection: Quantitation using an optimized ribonuclease protection assay

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1233-1240

  Hassin, Shimon ^a   Gothilf, Yoav ^a   Blaise, Odile ^a   Zohar, Yonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b COMB ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA; RNA PROBES;

ANIMALIA; MORONE SAXATILIS;

EID: 0031968243     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.5.1233     Document Type: Article

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