Thyroid hormone upregulates hypothalamic kiss2 gene in the male Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Ogawa, Satoshi ^a   Ng, Kai We ^a   Xue, Xiaoyu ^b   Ramadasan, Priveena Nair ^a   Sivalingam, Mageswary ^a   Li, Shuisheng ^b   Levavi Sivan, Berta ^c   Lin, Haoran ^b   Liu, Xiaochun ^b   Parhar, Ishwar S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cichlid; Hypothalamus; In situ hybridization; Kisspeptin; Thyroid receptor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890261309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00184     Document Type: Article

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