Melatonin regulates delayed embryonic development in the short-nosed fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx

Reproduction

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 935-944

  Banerjee, Arnab ^a   Meenakumari, K J ^a   Udin, S ^b   Krishna, A ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MELATONIN RECEPTOR 1A; MELATONIN RECEPTOR 1B; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEOLYSIS; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHIROPTERA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MELATONIN; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN;

CYNOPTERUS SPHINX;

EID: 72949088653     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0114     Document Type: Article

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