GnRH-immunoreactive neuronal system in the presumptive ancestral chordate, Ciona intestinalis (ascidian)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 426-432

  Tsutsui, H ^a   Yamamoto, N ^b   Ito, H ^b   Oka, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHORDATA; EVOLUTION; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0032411156     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7160     Document Type: Article

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