Cyclic changes in messenger RNAs encoding inhibin/activin subunits in the ovary of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 561-575

  Arai, Koji Y ^a   Kishi, Hisashi ^a   Onodera, Satoshi ^a   Jin, Wanzhu ^a   Watanabe, Gen ^a,b   Suzuki, Akira K ^c   Takahashi, Shinji ^c   Kamada, Toshihiko ^a   Nishiyama, Toshio ^a   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GONADORELIN ANTIBODY; INHIBIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HAMSTER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTIVINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRICETINAE; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNE SERA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; INHIBINS; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; RNA, MESSENGER; THECA CELLS;

EID: 21244470294     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06140     Document Type: Article

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