Zebrafish gonadotropins and their receptors: II. Cloning and characterization of zebrafish follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone subunits - Their spatial-temporal expression patterns and receptor specificity

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1382-1396

  So, Wai Kin ^a   Kwok, Hin Fai ^a   Ge, Wei ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

FSH; Fshr; LH; Lhr; Pituitary; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHO CELL; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMINAL VESICLE; GLYCOSYLATION; GONAD; HYPOPHYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVULATION; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 18844402425     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.038216     Document Type: Article

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