Endocrine Abstracts

Animals living outside the tropics use changes in daylength to adapt to seasonal changes in environment, but the molecular and endocrine mechanisms underlying seasonal reproduction are not fully understood. The Japanese quail is a robust model for the study of these mechanisms because of its rapid and dramatic response to changes in photoperiod. In the previous study, we have demonstrated that local thyroid hormone catabolism within the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) by thyroid...

T Yoshimura, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan AbstractProf. Takashi Yoshimura graduated from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Nagoya University in 1996. In 1995 he was awarded the JSPS Research Fellowship for young scientists and between 1996 and 1999 he worked as a Research Associate at the School of Agriculture, Nagoya University. At the same institution he was Assistant professor until 2005 and later became the ...