Profiles of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the Japanese flounder as revealed by a newly developed time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay and immunohistochemistry

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-141

  Amiya, Noriko ^a   Amano, Masafumi ^a   Takahashi, Akiyoshi ^a   Yamanome, Takeshi ^b   Yamamori, Kunio ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Background color; Japanese flounder; Time resolved fluoroimmunoassay; MSH

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; ALPHA MELANOCYTE STIMULATING HORMONE ANTIBODY; HORMONE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EEL; FLOUNDER; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; GOLDFISH; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 33846939534     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2006.12.015     Document Type: Article

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