Roles of melatonin in gonadal maturation of underyearling precocious male masu salmon

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 190-197

  Amano, Masafumi ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^b   Ikuta, Kazumasa ^c   Kitamura, Shoji ^c   Yamada, Hideaki ^a   Yamamori, Kunio ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Masu salmon; Melatonin; Oral administration; Photoperiod; Testicular maturation

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; MELATONIN; OXOSTEROID; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMPLANT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS CELL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0033638052     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7547     Document Type: Article

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