Possible gonadotropin cells in the lamprey pituitary: Colocalization of mammalian LH-like immunoreactivity and glycoconjugate in adult sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-31

  Nozaki, Masumi ^a   Ominato, Kunihiro ^a   Takahashi, Akiyoshi ^b   Kawauchi, Hiroshi ^b   Sower, Stacia A ^c  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOCONJUGATE; GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; FISH; GONAD FUNCTION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS PARS DISTALIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LAMPREY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

PETROMYZON MARINUS; VICIA VILLOSA;

EID: 0032924522     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7189     Document Type: Article

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