Disruption of the salmon reproductive endocrine axis through prolonged nutritional stress: Changes in circulating hormone levels and transcripts for ovarian genes involved in steroidogenesis and apoptosis

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 331-343

  Yamamoto, Yoji ^a,b   Adam Luckenbach, J ^b   Goetz, Frederick W ^c   Young, Graham ^a,d   Swanson, Penny ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Atresia; Fasting; Nutritional stress; Ovary; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AROMATASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; ESTRADIOL; FAS ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CASP 3 GENE; CASP 8 GENE; CASP 9 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP 19A 1A GENE; FADD GENE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HSD 3B GENE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STAR GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 79955923845     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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