Seasonal variation in glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors in metabolic tissues of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 214, Issue , 2015, Pages 95-102

  Lattin, Christine R ^a   Romero, L Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Corticosterone; Energy mobilization hypothesis; Hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; RADIOLIGAND; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BREEDING METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIGAND BINDING; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WINTER; ANIMAL; KIDNEY; LIVER; METABOLISM; OMENTUM; SEASON; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPARROW;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MOLTING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OMENTUM; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SEASONS; SPARROWS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 84940735492     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.05.033     Document Type: Article

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