Pituitary gonadotropin and ovarian gonadotropin receptor transcript levels: Seasonal and photoperiod-induced changes in the reproductive physiology of female Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 191, Issue , 2013, Pages 247-258

  Andersson, Eva ^a   Schulz, Rüdiger W ^a,b   Male, Rune ^c   Bogerd, Jan ^b   Patiña, Danielle ^b   Benedet, Susana ^d   Norberg, Birgitta ^a   Taranger, Geir Lasse ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fshb; Gonadotropin receptor; Lhb; Ovarian development; Photoperiod; Steroids

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FSH B GENE; FSHR GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LH B GENE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAWNING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

FSHB; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LHB; OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT; PHOTOPERIOD; STEROIDS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; OVARY; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTORS, GONADOTROPIN; REPRODUCTION; SALMO SALAR; SEASONS;

EID: 84881260075     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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