Disruption of neuropsin mRNA expression via RNA interference facilitates the photoinduced increase in thyrotropin-stimulating subunit β in birds

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2859-2865

  Stevenson, Tyler J ^a,b   Ball, Gregory F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Canary; Deiodinase; OPN5; Photoperiod; Reproduction; TSH

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPSIN; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIO2 GENE; DIO3 GENE; EYA3 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MEDIOBASAL HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPN5 GENE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA ISOLATION; TSHBETA GENE;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CANARIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; OPSINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT;

EID: 84866382065     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08209.x     Document Type: Article

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