Up-regulation of FSHR expression during gonadal sex determination in the frog Rana rugosa

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-486

  Suda, Mari ^a   Kodama, Maho ^a   Oshima, Yuki ^a   Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^a   Nakamura, Yoriko ^b   Tanaka, Shigeyasu ^c   Kikuyama, Sakae ^a   Nakamura, Masahisa ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CDNA; Gonad; Gonadotropins; Immunostaining; Pituitary; Rana rugosa; Receptors; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FROG; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RANA RUGOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; TADPOLE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION;

EID: 79957839441     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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