Differential response of type 2 deiodinase gene expression to photoperiod between photoperiodic Fischer 344 and nonphotoperiodic Wistar rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Yasuo, Shinobu ^a,c   Watanabe, Miwa ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^a   Nakamura, Takahiro J ^a   Watanabe, Tsuyoshi ^a   Takagi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ono, Hiroko ^a   Ebihara, Shizufumi ^a   Yoshimura, Takashi ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mediobasal hypothalamus; Photoperiodism; Testicular weight

Indexed keywords

IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE 2; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYPOTHALAMUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTOPERIOD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

EID: 33847759908     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00396.2006     Document Type: Article

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