Elevation of Kiss2 and its receptor gene expression in the brain and pituitary of grass puffer during the spawning season

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-57

  Shahjahan, Md ^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; GPR54; Kisspeptin; Metastin; Pituitary; Puffer; Seasonal reproduction; Sexual maturation

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GENOMIC DNA; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN 1; KISSPEPTIN; KISSPEPTIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONAD; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPAWNING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77956618232     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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