Temporal profile of brain and pituitary GnRHs, GnRH-R and gonadotropin mRNA expression and content during early development in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-86

  Moles, G ^a   Carrillo, M ^a   Mananos E ^a   Mylonas, C C ^b   Zanuy, S ^a  

^a CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

European sea bass; GnRH receptor; GnRHs; Gonadotropins; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCOPHORIN A; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EUROPEAN SEA BASS; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALMON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 33845327171     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2006.07.012     Document Type: Article

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