Expression of urocortin and corticotropin-releasing hormone receptors in the horse thyroid gland

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 350, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-53

  Squillacioti, Caterina ^a,b   De Luca, Adriana ^a,b   Alì, Sabrina ^a,b   Paino, Salvatore ^a,b   Liguori, Giovanna ^a,b   Mirabella, Nicola ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

C cells; Follicular cells; Horse; Immunohistochemistry; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROCORTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID GLAND; UROCORTINS;

EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84868108837     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1450-4     Document Type: Article

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