Changes in thyroid hormones in the serum and the thyroid gland of hibernating frogs, Rana temporaria L

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 172-180

  Kowalczyk, Pawel ^a   Sotowska Brochocka, Jolanta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Free and bound forms of thyroid hormones; Frog hibernation; Rana temporaria; Spontaneous activation; Thyroid gland; Thyroxine (T4); Triiodothyronine (T3)

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; FROG; HIBERNATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0033836565     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7510     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Increased plasma levels of thyroid hormones in a frog Rana ridibunda following intravenous administration of TRH
2. Several hypothalamic peptides stimulate in vitro thyrotropin secretion by pituitaries of anuran amphibians
3. Activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis during exposure to cold
4. Seasonal changes in thyroid activity in male and female frog, Rana perezi
5. Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone as a potent stimulator of the thyroidal axis in ranid frogs
6. Thyroid hormone feedback regulation of the secretion of bioactive thyrotropin in the frog
7. Seasonal fluctuations in pituitary gland and plasma levels of gonadotropic hormones in Rana
8. Annual variations of thyroid reactivity following thyrotropin stimulation and circulating levels of thyroid hormones in the frog Rana ridibunda
9. Persistence of a circadian rhythmicity for thyroid hormones in plasma and thyroid of hibernating male Rana ridibunda
10. A thyroxine as a trigger for thyroid activation in the hibernating frog Rana ridibunda
11. Thyroid function and a possible thyroidal-gonadal interaction in reproduction and circannual rhythmicity
12. The role of the thyroid in the temperature acclimation of the oxidative metabolism in the frog Rana temporaria
13. The GnRH system of seasonal breeders: Anatomy and plasticity
14. Determination of serum thyroxine in two species of toads: Variation with season
15. Thyrotropic activity of various adenohypophyseal hormones of the bullfrog
16. Effect of infundibular lesions on GnRH and LH release in the frog, Rana temporaria, during hibernation
17. Changes of LH level in the pituitary gland and plasma in hibernating frogs, Rana temporaria
18. The thyroid and its control
19. Annual cycle of plasma thyroid hormone levels in the toad, Bufo japonicus
20. 125I uptake by the thyroid in Rana temporaria
21. 4) and testosterone
22. Activity of the thyroid gland of the common frog (Rana temporaria L.) in the annual cycle