Seasonal changes of responses to gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog in expression of growth hormone/prolactin/somatolactin genes in the pituitary of masu salmon

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-63

  Bhandari, Ramji Kumar ^a   Taniyama, Shinya ^a   Kitahashi, Takashi ^a   Ando, Hironori ^a   Yamauchi, Kohei ^a   Zohar, Yonathan ^b   Ueda, Hiroshi ^a   Urano, Akihisa ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; SOMATOLACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAWNING; SPRING; WINTER;

EID: 0037287514     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(02)00536-1     Document Type: Article

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