Presence and developmental regulation of serotonin N-acetyltransferase transcripts in oocytes and early quail embryos (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 132-140

  Oblap, Ruslan ^a,b   Olszańska, Bozenna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

^b Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences Kiev   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Avian oocyte; Embryo; Japanese quail; Melatonin; Pineal gland; Serotonin N acetyltransferase transcription

Indexed keywords

ARALKYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN N ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; EGG; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BASE SEQUENCE; COTURNIX; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

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

EID: 0037627325     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10236     Document Type: Article

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