Molecular characterization and quantification of the gonadotropin receptors FSH-R and LH-R from Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-58

  Mittelholzer, C ^a   Andersson, E ^a   Taranger, G L ^a   Consten, D ^a   Hirai, T ^b   Senthilkumaran, B ^c   Nagahama, Y ^d   Norberg, B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin hormone receptors

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GONAD; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GADUS MORHUA; MALE; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 57649171438     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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