Effect of estrogen on hypothalamic transforming growth factor alpha and gonadotropin-releasing hormone gene expression in the female rhesus monkey

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 228-235

  El Majdoubi, Mohammed ^a   Sahu, Abhiram ^a   Plant, Tony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gonadal steroids; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Molecular neuroendocrinology; Preoptic area; Primates; Rhesus monkey; Transforming growth factors

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; LIQUID NITROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PENTOBARBITAL; RIBONUCLEASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RHESUS MONKEY; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RNA PROBE;

ANIMALS; CAPSULES; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; RIBONUCLEASES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

EID: 0031958388     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054318     Document Type: Article

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