Central distribution of kiss2 neurons and peri-pubertal changes in their expression in the brain of male and female red seabream pagrus major

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 432-442

  Shimizu, Yuki ^a   Tomikawa, Junko ^a   Hirano, Keisuke ^a   Nanikawa, Yoko ^a   Akazome, Yasuhisa ^b   Kanda, Shinji ^b   Kazeto, Yukinori ^c   Okuzawa, Koichi ^c   Uenoyama, Yoshihisa ^a   Ohkura, Satoshi ^a   Tsukamura, Hiroko ^a   Maeda, Kei ichiro ^a   Gen, Koichiro ^c   Oka, Yoshitaka ^b   Yamamoto, Naoyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Kiss2; Kisseptin; Puberty; Seabream; Teleost

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPHIN RELEASING HORMONE 1; MESSENGER RNA; METASTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE PROTEIN COMPLEX; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KISS1 LIKE GENE; KISS2 GENE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAGRUS MAJOR; PERCIFORMES; PREOPTIC AREA; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA BREAM; SPAWNING; STOP CODON; TELEOST;

EID: 84856094303     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.11.038     Document Type: Article

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