Effect of photoperiod and estrogen on expression of arginine vasotocin and its oxytocic-like receptor in the shell gland of the Japanese quail

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 451-457

  Srivastava, Rashmi ^a   Cornett, Lawrence E ^b   Chaturvedi, Chandra Mohini ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine vasotocin; Egg lay; Estrogen; Myometrial contraction; Neurohypophysial hormones; Oviposition; Shell gland; Uterus; Vasotocin receptor

Indexed keywords

ANTIESTROGEN; ARGIPRESTOCIN; ESTROGEN; HORMONE ANTIBODY; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TAMOXIFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VT3 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CYCLE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUAIL; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA;

EID: 34547600937     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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