Presence of immunoreactive gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) and its receptor (GnRHR) in rat ovary during pregnancy

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1031-1044

  Sengupta, Anamika ^a   Chakrabarti, Nilkanta ^a   Sridaran, Rajagopala ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GnRH; GnRHR; Ovary; Pregnancy; Rats

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CORPUS LUTEUM; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BREEDING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CORPUS LUTEUM; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, LHRH; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 42949163492     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20834     Document Type: Article

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