Testosterone modulates pituitary vasotocin receptor expression and adrenal activity in osmotically stressed chicken

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-93

  Sharma, Dharmendra ^a   Chaturvedi, Chandra Mohini ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Chicken; HPA axis; POMC; Testosterone; Vasotocin receptor

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; CORTICOTROPIN; MELANOCORTIN; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; WATER DEPRIVATION;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 78649630378     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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