Ontogenic expression profiles of gonadotropins (FSHB and LHB) and growth hormone (GH) during sexual differentiation and puberty onset in female zebrafish

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Weiting ^a   Ge, Wei ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

FSH; GH; Gonadotropins; LH; Pituitary pituitary hormones; Puberty; Sex differentiation; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FISH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GROWTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VITELLOGENESIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY GLAND; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84860613426     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.094730     Document Type: Article

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