Immunocytochemical localization and ultrastructural study of gonadotroph cells in the female desert lizard Uromastyx acanthinura

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-25

  Hammouche, S ^a   Gernigon, T ^a   Exbrayat, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

FSH; Gonadotropes; Immunocytochemistry; Lizard; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HYPOPHYSIS PARS DISTALIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; SECRETORY GRANULE; VITELLOGENESIS; WINTER;

SQUAMATA; UROMASTYX ACANTHINURA;

EID: 33847683878     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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