Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone gene expression differs in young and middle-aged females on the day of a steroid-induced LH surge

Brain Research

Volumn 770, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 267-276

  Rubin, Beverly S ^a   Lee, Charlotte E ^a   Ohtomo, Mika ^a   King, Joan C ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related; Digoxigenin; Estrous cyclicity; GnRH; GnRH mRNA; Hypothalamus; In situ hybridization; LHRH mRNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DIGOXIGENIN; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030813102     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00879-2     Document Type: Article

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