Feedback regulation of growth hormone synthesis and secretion in fish and the emerging concept of intrapituitary feedback loop

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 284-305

  Wong, Anderson O L ^a   Zhou, Hong ^a   Jiang, Yonghua ^a   Ko, Wendy K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Autocrine paracrine interactions; Feedback control; Fish; Gene expression; Gonadotrophs; Growth hormone; Luteinizing hormone; Pituitary; Signal transduction; Somatotrophs

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE;

AQUACULTURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FISH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745456254     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.11.021     Document Type: Review

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