Leptin's actions on the reproductive axis: Perspectives and mechanisms

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 216-222

  Cunningham, Matthew J ^a   Clifton, Donald K ^b   Steiner, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ARTICLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; PROTEINS; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0032919990     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.2.216     Document Type: Article

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