Secretory activity of gonadotropin and the responsiveness of gonadotrophs to gonadotropin - Releasing hormone during the annual reproductive cycle of male bats, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum: Analysis by cell immunoblot assay

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 287, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 213-224

  Kawamoto, Keiichi ^a   Tanaka, Susumu ^a   Hayashi, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHIROPTERA; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; RHINOLOPHUS; RHINOLOPHUS FERRUMEQUINUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034255937     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-010X(20000801)287:3<213::AID-JEZ3>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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