Differential expression of three types of gonadotropin-releasing hormone genes during the spawning season in grass puffer, Takifugu niphobles

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-163

  Shahjahan, Md ^a   Hamabata, Tomoko ^a   Motohashi, Eiji ^a   Doi, Hiroyuki ^b   Ando, Hironori ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Gene expression; GnRH; GTH; Pituitary; Puffer; Seasonal reproduction; Sexual maturation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCOPHORIN A; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPHIN RELEASING HORMONE II; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN VARIANT; PUFFER FISH; SALMON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPAWNING; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TAKIFUGU NIPHOBLES; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

EID: 77952543562     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.01.018     Document Type: Article

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