Cloning of FSHβ, LHβ, and glycoprotein α subunits from the Russian Sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), β-subunit mRNA expression, gonad development, and steroid levels in immature fish

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-73

  Hurvitz, Avshalom ^a,b   Degani, Gad ^b,c   Goldberg, Doron ^b   Din, Svetlana Yom ^a,b   Jackson, Karen ^b,c   Levavi Sivan, Berta ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

11 Ketotestosterone; Estradiol; Gene expression; Gonadotropin; Puberty; Real time PCR; Sturgeon

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; AMINO ACID; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FISH; GENDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; TELEOST; TESTIS; VERTEBRATE; VITELLOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FISHES; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 19444368416     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2004.09.019     Document Type: Article

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