Physiology and endocrinology of zinc accumulation during the female squirrelfish reproductive cycle

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 819-828

  Thompson, E D ^a,b   Mayer, G D ^c   Balesaria, S ^b   Glover, C N ^b   Walsh, P J ^c   Hogstrand, C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol (E2); Fish; Liver; Metallothionein (MT); Ovary; Reproduction; Sex steroids; Squirrelfish; Vitellogenin (VTG); Zinc

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; METALLOTHIONEIN; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHRONOLOGY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FISH; GROWTH; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEASON; SEXUAL MATURATION; SQUIRRELFISH; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; HOLOCENTRIDAE; HOLOCENTRUS ADSCENSIONIS;

EID: 0038278659     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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