Regular pacemaker activity characterizes gonadotropin-releasing hormone 2 neurons recorded from green fluorescent protein-transgenic medaka

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 695-701

  Kanda, Shinji ^a   Nishikawa, Kei ^a   Karigo, Tomomi ^a   Okubo, Kataaki ^a,b   Isomae, Shoko ^a   Abe, Hideki ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^a   Oka, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; METHIONINE; NEURONS; ORYZIAS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, LHRH;

EID: 74949141642     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0842     Document Type: Article

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