Expression and localization of growth hormone and its receptors in the chicken ovary during sexual maturation

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 332, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 317-328

  Hrabia, Anna ^a   Paczoska Eliasiewicz, Helena E ^a   Berghman, Luc R ^b   Harvey, Steve ^c   Rząsa, Janusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chicken; Growth hormone; Growth hormone receptors; Ovary; Sexual maturation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EGG LAYING; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HEN; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE TUNICA EXTERNA; OVARY FOLLICLE TUNICA INTERNA; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; STROMA; THECA CELL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 42149174236     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-008-0595-7     Document Type: Article

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