Expression of urocortin and corticotropin-releasing hormone receptors in the bovine adrenal gland

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 416-422

  Squillacioti, Caterina ^a,b   De Luca, Adriana ^a   Liguori, Giovanna ^a   Paino, Salvatore ^a   Mirabella, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenal cortex; Immunohistochemistry; Medulla; Real time RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; UROCORTIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZONA FASCICULATA;

EID: 79957821827     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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