Effects of castration and androgen-treatment on the expression of FSH-β and LH-β in the three-spine stickleback, gasterosteus aculeatus-Feedback differences mediating the photoperiodic maturation response?

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 178-182

  Hellqvist, Anna ^a   Schmitz, Monika ^b   Borg, Bertil ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Androgen treatment; Castration; FSH; LH; mRNA expression; Photoperiod; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

11 KETOANDROSTENEDIONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 50649105245     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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