Melatonin stimulates the release of gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone by the avian hypothalamus

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 271-280

  Chowdhury, Vishwajit S ^a   Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^a   Ubuka, Takayoshi ^a   Bentley, George E ^b   Hattori, Atsuhiko ^c   Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPLANT; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COTURNIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIGHT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MELATONIN; PHOTOPERIOD;

EID: 73649125862     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0908     Document Type: Article

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