Corticotropin-releasing factor regulates the development in the direct developing frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 225-230

  Kulkarni, Saurabh S ^a   Singamsetty, Srikanth ^b   Buchholz, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; CRF; Development; Evolution; Thyroid hormone; TRH

Indexed keywords

ASTRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; LIOTHYRONINE; PROTIRELIN; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FROG; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

EID: 77958509783     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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