Pituitary gonadotropins FSH and LH are oppositely regulated by the activin/follistatin system in a basal teleost, the eel

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-91

  Aroua, Salima ^a   Maugars, Gersende ^a   Jeng, Shan Ru ^b   Chang, Ching Fong ^c   Weltzien, Finn Arne ^d   Rousseau, Karine ^a   Dufour, Sylvie ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Activin; Anguilla; Follistatin; Pituitary hormones; Teleost

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACTIVIN BETA B GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; FOLLISTATIN GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84855196073     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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