A sexual dimorphism in hypothalamic arginine vasotocin (AVT) gene expression and avt plasma levels in the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) in response to water deprivation

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 129-137

  Chaturvedi, Chandra Mohini ^a   Chowdhary, Adity ^a   Wall, P Timothy ^b   Koike, Thomas I ^b   Cornett, Lawrence E ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUAIL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0033960615     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7400     Document Type: Article

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