Effects of starvation on gonadotropin and thyrotropin subunit mRNA levels and plasma hormone levels in the male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Zoological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 331-342

  Kobayashi, Masaki ^a   Ishii, Susumu ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin; Japanese quail; mRNA; Starvation; Thyrotropin

Indexed keywords

AVES; COTURNIX COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMISTRY; COTURNIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STARVATION; TESTIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BODY WEIGHT; COTURNIX; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, MESSENGER; STARVATION; TESTIS; THYROTROPIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035983653     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.19.331     Document Type: Article

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