Endocrine effects of growth hormone overexpression in transgenic coho salmon

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-37

  Raven, P A ^a   Uh, M ^a   Sakhrani, D ^a   Beckman, B R ^b   Cooper, K ^b   Pinter, J ^a   Leder, E H ^c   Silverstein, J ^d   Devlin, R H ^a  

^a Fisheries and Oceans Canada   (Canada)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage sulphation; Cholecystokinin; Coho salmon; Growth hormone; Growth hormone receptor; Growth hormone releasing hormone; Insulin like growth factor I; Neuropeptide Y; Oncorhynchus kisutch; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIVER; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; WILD TYPE;

EID: 53149121625     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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