Isolation and characterization of the goldfish thyrotropin β subunit gene including the 5'-flanking region

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 463-473

  Sohn, Young Chang ^a   Yoshiura, Yasutoshi ^a   Suetake, Hiroaki ^a   Kobayashi, Makito ^a   Aida, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

5' flanking region; Gene structure; Goldfish; Thyrotropin; Triiodothyronine; TSH; subunit

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BETA CHAIN; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GOLDFISH; HORMONE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344994621     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7342     Document Type: Article

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