Are the cannabinoids involved in bony fish reproduction?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1040, Issue , 2005, Pages 273-276

  Cottone, Erika ^a   Campantico, Ezio ^a   Guastalla, Alda ^a   Aramu, Stefania ^a   Polzonetti Magni, Alberta M ^b   Franzoni, Mariafosca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain; CB1 receptor; Cichlids; Cyprinids; GnRH; Gonads; Immunohistochemistry; RT PCR; TH

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN;

CARRASIUS AURATUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GONAD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELVICACHROMIS PULCHER; PHYLOGENY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELENCEPHALON; TELEOST;

CARASSIUS AURATUS; CICHLIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; DANIO RERIO; OSTEICHTHYES; PELVICACHROMIS PULCHER; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES;

EID: 22144492947     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1327.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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