Involvement of transforming growth factor α in the photoperiodic regulation of reproduction in birds

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2788-2792

  Takagi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yamamura, Takashi ^a   Anraku, Tsubasa ^a   Yasuo, Shinobu ^a   Nakao, Nobuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Miwa ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^b   Ebihara, Shizufumi ^a   Yoshimura, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 4; GENE PRODUCT; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; T 7924; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TYPE 2 IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMPLANTATION; LIGHT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; COTURNIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 34250847268     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0112     Document Type: Article

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