Piscine follicle-stimulating hormone triggers progestin production in gilthead seabream primary ovarian follicles

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Zapater, Cinta ^a   Chauvigné, François ^a   Scott, Alexander P ^b   Gómez, Ana ^c   Katsiadaki, Ioanna ^b   Cerdà, Joan ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Cbr1; Cyp17a; Cyp19a1; Fsh receptor; Oogenesis; Progestin; Teleost

Indexed keywords

17ALPHA, 20BETA DIHYDROXYPREGN 4 EN 3 ONE; 3ALPHA(OR 20BETA) HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GESTAGEN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPARUS AURATA; STEADY STATE; TELEOST; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROXYPROGESTERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PROGESTINS; RECEPTORS, GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEA BREAM; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE;

PISCES; SPARUS AURATA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84869413041     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.102533     Document Type: Article

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