Molecular cloning and histological localization of LH-like substances in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) placenta

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-118

  Watanabe, Nozomi ^a   Hatano, Jun ^a   Asahina, Kiyoshi ^a   Iwasaki, Toshihide ^b   Hayakawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN FISHERIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carboxyl terminal peptides; cDNA cloning; Cetaceans; Chorionic gonadotropin; Immunohistochemistry; Luteinizing hormone; Placenta; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GONADOTROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE ANTIBODY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; PEPTIDE;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FUNCTION; PERISSODACTYLA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE;

ARTIODACTYLA; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM; CETACEA; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIMATES; SUIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 33846674805     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.09.011     Document Type: Article

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