Involvement of thyrotropin in photoperiodic signal transduction in mice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 47, 2008, Pages 18238-18242

  Ono, Hiroko ^a   Hoshino, Yuta ^a   Yasuo, Shinobu ^a,b   Watanabe, Miwa ^a   Nakane, Yusuke ^a   Murai, Atsushi ^a   Ebihara, Shizufumi ^a   Korf, Horst Werner ^b   Yoshimura, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Melatonin; Pars tuberalis; Photoperiodism; Type 2 and 3 iodothyronine deiodinases

Indexed keywords

DIO2 HORMONE; DIO3 HORMONE; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; MELATONIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INJECTION; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MALE; MELATONIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 57449101096     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808952105     Document Type: Article

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