Effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog on expression of genes encoding the growth hormone/prolactin/somatolactin family and a pituitary- specific transcription factor in the pituitaries of prespawning sockeye salmon

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 418-424

  Taniyama, Shinya ^a   Kitahashi, Takashi ^a   Ando, Hironori ^a   Kaeriyama, Masahide ^b   Zohar, Yonathan ^c   Ueda, Hiroshi ^a   Urano, Akihisa ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; TELEOST;

ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 0034124886     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7480     Document Type: Article

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