Social cues regulate reciprocal switching of hypothalamic dio2/dio3 and the transition into final follicle maturation in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Endocrinology (United States)

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 694-706

  Perfito, Nicole ^a   Guardado, Daisy ^a   Williams, Tony D ^b   Bentley, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; RAIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE; TYPE 2 DEIODINASE; TYPE 3 DEIODINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AVIAN PROTEIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE TYPE II; IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE TYPE III; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STURNUS VULGARIS; THYROID HORMONE METABOLISM; VITELLOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; NESTING; OVARY; OVIPARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STARLING;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AVIAN PROTEINS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LIPOPROTEINS, VLDL; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVIPARITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STARLINGS; VITELLOGENESIS; VITELLOGENINS;

EID: 84921641450     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1450     Document Type: Article

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