Differential regulation of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone expression during ovarian development and under sexual steroid feedback in the European eel

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-119

  Schmitz, Monika ^a,b   Aroua, Salima ^b   Vidal, Bernadette ^b   Le Belle, Nadine ^b   Elie, Pierre ^c   Dufour, Sylvie ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Fishes; Gonadal steroids; Gonadotropins; In situ hybridization

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EEL; EUROPE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOPHYSIS PARS DISTALIS; IMMATURITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEOST; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPOPHYSIS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESTRADIOL; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; OVARY; PITUITARY GLAND; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23844523511     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086404     Document Type: Article

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