Arginine-vasotocin expression and participation in reproduction and social behavior in males of the cichlid fish cichlasoma dimerus

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-231

  Ramallo, Martín Roberto ^a   Grober, Matthew ^b   Cánepa, Maximiliano Martín ^a   Morandini, Leonel ^a   Pandolfi, Matías ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cichlids; Gonadal androgens; Neuroendocrinology; Pituitary culture; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ARGIPRESTOCIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANDROGEN RELEASE; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CICHLASOMA DIMERUS; CICHLID; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TESTIS; VASOTOCINERGIC NEURON; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VASOTOCINERGIC NERVE CELL; VASOTOCINERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TERRITORIALITY;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CICHLIDS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEURONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TERRITORIALITY; TESTIS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84866644607     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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