Dimorphic expression of tryptophan hydroxylase in the brain of XX and XY Nile tilapia during early development

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 320-329

  Sudhakumari, C C ^a,b   Senthilkumaran, B ^a,b   Raghuveer, K ^a   Wang, D S ^b   Kobayashi, T ^b   Kagawa, H ^c   Krishnaiah, Ch ^a   Dutta Gupta, A ^a   Nagahama, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain sex differentiation; Dimorphic expression; Serotonin; The Nile tilapia; Tryptophan hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL STRAIN COS7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; TILAPIA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77349093021     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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