Immunohistochemical localization of inhibin and activin-like proteins in the brain, pituitary gland, and the ovary of thin-lipped grey mullet, Liza ramada (Risso)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 434-443

  Mousa, Mostafa A ^a   Mousa, Shaaban A ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

^b ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activin; Immunocytochemistry; Inhibin; Liza ramada (Teleostei); Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN A; FRESH WATER; INHIBIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; INTERMEDIN; MYELOPID; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO RESORPTION; FEMALE; FISH; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOMATIC CELL; TEGMENTUM; TELENCEPHALON; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 0037704620     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(03)00122-9     Document Type: Article

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