MTNR1A melatonin receptors in the ovine premammillary hypothalamus: Day-night variation in the expression of the transcripts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 393-398

  Migaud, Martine ^a   Daveau, Agnès ^a   Malpaux, Benoît ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Melatonin; Neuroendocrinology; Receptors; Seasonal reproduction

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MELATONIN; MELATONIN 1A RECEPTOR; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SULFUR 35; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAMMILLARY BODY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROBE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELATONIN; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP;

EID: 12344298310     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.030064     Document Type: Article

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