Ghrelin in the summer flounder: Immunolocalization to the gastric glands and action on plasma cortisol levels

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 268-272

  Breves, Jason P ^a   Veillette, Philip A ^a   Specker, Jennifer L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Flounder; Ghrelin; Immunohistochemistry; Paralichthys dentatus

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; GHRELIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOUNDER; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; STOMACH GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

PARALICHTHYS; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 57549112014     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.10.020     Document Type: Article

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