Effects of aromatase inhibitors and different doses of testosterone on gonadotropins in one year old male Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 408-416

  Antonopoulou, Efthimia ^a   Swanson, Penny ^b   Borg, Bertil ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aromatase inhibitor; Atlantic salmon; FSH; LH; Reproductive endocrinology; Teleost; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3,17 DIONE; AROMATASE; FOLLITROPIN; FORMESTANE; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HYPOPHYSIS; JUVENILE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PUBERTY; SEASON; SUMMER;

SALMO SALAR; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 67349223007     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.03.019     Document Type: Article

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