Expression profiles of LHβ, FSHβ and their gonadal receptor mRNAs during sexual differentiation of Xenopus laevis tadpoles

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 239-244

  Urbatzka, R ^a   Lorenz, C ^a   Lutz, I ^a   Kloas, W ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin receptors; Gonadotropins; HPG axis; Sexual differentiation; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TADPOLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; LARVA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; RECEPTORS, GONADOTROPIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77955337688     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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