Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone in Gambel's white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii): cDNA identification, transcript localization and functional effects in laboratory and field experiments

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-42

  Osugi, T ^a,b   Ukena, K ^a,b   Bentley, G E ^c   O'Brien, S ^c   Moore, I T ^c   Wingfield, J C ^c   Tsutsui, K ^a,b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCINE; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN INHIBITORY HORMONE; LEUCYLPROLYLGLUTAMYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; LEUCYLPROLYLLEUCYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; AMIDATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BIRD; BREEDING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUAIL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; UNITED STATES; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; BRAIN; CHICKENS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORCHIECTOMY; PEPTIDE HORMONES; QUAIL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 4043069259     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1820033     Document Type: Article

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