Evidence to suggest that gonadotropin-releasing hormone inhibits its own secretion by affecting hypothalamic amino acid neurotransmitter release

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 298-304

  Feleder, Carlos ^b   Jarry, Hubertus ^a   Leonhardt, Sabine ^a   Moguilevsky, Jaime A ^b   Wuttke, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Taurine; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; BUSERELIN; BUSERELIN ACETATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TAURINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BUSERELIN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAURINE;

EID: 0029762142     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127132     Document Type: Article

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