Determination of Fsh quantity and bioactivity during sex differentiation and oogenesis in European sea bass

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 848-857

  Molés, Gregorio ^a   Gómez, Ana ^a   Carrillo, Manuel ^a   Rocha, Ana ^a   Mylonas, Constantinos C ^b   Zanuy, Silvia ^a  

^a CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biopotency; Dot blot immunoassay; Fish reproduction; Follicle stimulating hormone (Fsh Fsh receptor); Gametogenesis; Gonadotropins; Hormone levels; Perciform fish; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; EUROPEAN SEA BASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY CYCLE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VITELLOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASS; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENES, REPORTER; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MALE; OOGENESIS; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; VITELLOGENESIS;

DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80955139488     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.091868     Document Type: Article

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