Gonadotropin-releasing hormone-like molecule is not an acute reproductive activator in the gastropod, Aplysia californica

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 280-288

  Tsai, Pei San ^a   Sun, Biao ^a   Rochester, Johanna R ^a   Wayne, Nancy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplysia californica; Behavior; Gastropod; GnRH; Radioimmunoassay; Reproduction; Sea hare

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ABDOMINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN GANGLION; BUCCAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FOOT GANGLION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77349083917     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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