Changes in serum inhibin levels and immunolocalization of inhibin/activin subunits during the breeding season in the wild male Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus)

Endocrine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 345-350

  Weng, Qiang ^a,b   Medan, Mohamed S ^b,c   Okano, Tsukasa ^d   Murase, Tetsuma ^d,e   Tsubota, Toshio ^d,e   Xu, Meiyu ^a   Watanabe, Gen ^b,d   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^b,d  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

^d GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inhibin; Japanese black bear; LH; Testis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AVIDIN; BIOTIN; INHIBIN ALPHA; INHIBIN BETAA; INHIBIN BETAB; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PEROXIDASE; POLYCLONAL ANTISERUM; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAR; BREEDING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 33746255320     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/ENDO:29:2:345     Document Type: Article

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