Follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone mediate the androgenic pathway in leydig cells of an evolutionary advanced teleost

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Chauvigné, François ^a   Verdura, Sara ^a   Mazón, María J ^b   Duncan, Neil ^c   Zanuy, Silvia ^b   Gómez, Ana ^b   Cerdà, Joan ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

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

^c IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flatfish; Gonadotropin receptors; Gonadotropins; Leydig cells; Spermatogenesis; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MOLECULAR MARKER; 3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CYCLIC AMP; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELEOST; TRANSACTIVATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FLATFISH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELL FACTOR; 3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANDROGENS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FLATFISHES; GONADOTROPINS; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; PLEURONECTIFORMES; SOLEA SENEGALENSIS; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864043623     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.100784     Document Type: Article

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