Prolactin functions as a survival factor during zebrafish embryogenesis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 88-93

  Nguyen, Nhu ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Knockdown; Morpholino; Prolactin; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CASPASE 8; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE; HORMONE ACTION; MICROINJECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 64049118906     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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