Developmental changes in gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone in the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) hypothalamo-hypophysial system

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 311-318

  Ubuka, T ^a,b   Ueno, M ^a,b   Ukena, K ^a,b   Tsutsui, K ^a,b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GONADOTROPIN; HORMONE INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HATCHING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUAIL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; COTURNIX; DIENCEPHALON; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0042854948     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1780311     Document Type: Article

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