A functional neuropeptide system in vertebrate gonads: Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone and its receptor in testes of field-caught house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 565-572

  McGuire, Nicolette L ^a   Bentley, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GnIH; Gonads; House sparrow; Leydig; Neuropeptide; RFamide; Spermatocytes; Testis; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN INHIBITORY HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; HORMONE PRECURSOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD FUNCTION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERSTITIUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUAIL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPARROW; SPERMATOCYTE; STARLING; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

EID: 77951975331     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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