Testicular gonadotropin-releasing hormone activity, progression of spermatogenesis, and sperm transport in vertebrates

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1163, Issue , 2009, Pages 279-291

  Pierantoni, Riccardo ^a   Cobellis, Gilda ^a   Meccariello, Rosaria ^b   Cacciola, Giovanna ^c   Chianese, Rosanna ^a   Chioccarelli, Teresa ^a   Fasano, Silvia ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOSTRUCTURES AND BIOSYSTEMS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chaperones; Endocannabinoids; GnRH; Proto oncogenes; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CHAPERONE; ENDOCANNABINOID; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN; PROTEIN DNAJ; PROTEIN MSJ; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FRA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EJACULATION; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; GERM CELL; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTO ONCOGENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 65449137982     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03617.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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