Brain expression of tyrosine hydroxylase and its regulation by steroid hormones in the European eel quantified by real-time PCR

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1040, Issue , 2005, Pages 518-520

  Weltzien, F A ^a,b   Pasqualini, C ^b   Le Belle, N ^a   Vidal, B ^a   Vernier, P ^b   Dufour, S ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Elopomorpha; Puberty; Steroid feedback; Teleost

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; EEL; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OPTIC TECTUM; PREOPTIC AREA; PUBERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TELENCEPHALON;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ELOPOMORPHA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 22144439366     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1327.108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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