Role of nitric oxide in gonadotropin-releasing hormone-dependent prostaglandin F(2α) synthesis by frog (Rana esculenta) interrenal gland during post-reproduction

Prostaglandins and Other Lipid Mediators

Volumn 55, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 277-290

  Gobbetti, A ^a   Bellini Cardellini, L ^a   Zerani, M ^a  

^a Universita   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frog; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Interrenal gland; Nitric oxide; Prostaglandin E2 9 ketoreductase; Prostaglandin F(2 ); Reproduction

Indexed keywords

CALMIDAZOLIUM; GONADORELIN; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FROG; HORMONAL REGULATION; INTERRENAL GLAND; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; DINOPROST; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYDROXYPROSTAGLANDIN DEHYDROGENASES; IMIDAZOLES; INTERRENAL GLAND; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE; P-METHOXY-N-METHYLPHENETHYLAMINE; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; RANA ESCULENTA; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VANADATES;

EID: 0032051437     PISSN: 00906980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-6980(98)00026-4     Document Type: Article

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