Single-cell real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction of immunofluorescently identified neurons of gonadotropin-releasing hormone subtypes in cichlid fish

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3297-3300

  Parhar, Ishwar S ^a   Ogawa, Satoshi ^a   Hamada, Tomohiro ^a   Sakuma, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GONADORELIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ISOLATION; GENE ISOLATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY BULB; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TILAPIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CICHLIDS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; PREOPTIC AREA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TESTIS;

EID: 0041814654     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0386     Document Type: Article

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