Identification of a novel pituitary-specific chicken gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor and its splice variants

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 800-808

  Shimizu, Mamiko ^a   Bédécarrats, Grégoy Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chicken; Gonadotropin releasing hormone receptor; Hypothalamus; neuroendocrinology; Pituitary; Pituitary Hormones; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY GLAND; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, LHRH; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750858426     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.050252     Document Type: Article

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