Novel expression of gonadotropin subunit genes in oocytes of the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 5210-5220

  Wong, Ten Tsao ^a   Zohar, Yonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON GLYCOPROTEIN ALPHA; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GILTHEAD SEABREAM; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPARUS AURATA; TELEOST;

5' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; OOCYTES; OVARY; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEA BREAM;

EID: 9244239171     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2004-0558     Document Type: Article

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