Effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone on pituitary-ovarian axis of one-year old pre-pubertal red seabream

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-112

  Kumakura, Naoki ^a   Okuzawa, Koichi ^b   Gen, Koichiro ^b   Yamaguchi, Sonoko ^c   Lim, Bon Soo ^a   Kagawa, Hirohiko ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Follicle stimulating hormone; Gonadotropin; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Luteinizing hormone; Pagrus major; Puberty; Red seabream; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMATURITY; IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEA BREAM; SEXUAL MATURITY; UPREGULATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 4043076950     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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