Expression of Fos within luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurons, in relation to the steroid-induced luteinizing hormone surge in guinea pigs

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 316-322

  King, J C ^a   Liu, E ^a   Ronsheim, P M ^a   Slonimski, M ^a   Rubin, B S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GUINEA PIG; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CYCLE; OVULATION; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GUINEA PIGS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEURONS; PERFUSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STEROIDS;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031910943     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.2.316     Document Type: Article

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