Normal female sexual development requires neuregulin-erbB receptor signaling in hypothalamic astrocytes

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 230-239

  Prevot, Vincent ^b   Rio, Carlos ^a,f   Cho, Gyeong J ^b,e   Lomniczi, Alejandro ^b   Heger, Sabine ^b   Neville, Craig M ^c   Rosenthal, Nadia A ^c,g   Ojeda, Sergio R ^b   Corfas, Gabriel ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f Diater Laboratories   (Spain)

^g EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Hypothalamus; Mammalian puberty; Neuregulin; Neuroendocrine; Neuron glia interactions

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LIGAND; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ERB2; PROTEIN ERB4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0037223338     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-01-00230.2003     Document Type: Article

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