Acute N-Methyl-D,L-Aspartate administration stimulates the luteinizing hormone releasing hormone pulse generator in the ovine fetus

Hormone Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Bettendorf, Markus ^a,b   De Zegher, F ^a   Albers, N ^a   Hart, C S ^a   Kaplan, S L ^a   Grumbach, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gonadotropins; Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone; N methyl D L aspartate; Ovine fetus

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULSE GENERATOR; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SHEEP;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; PROLACTIN; SHEEP; TRIPTORELIN;

EID: 0032890858     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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