Galanin enhancement of gonadotropin-releasing hormone-stimulated luteinizing hormone secretion in female rats is estrogen dependent

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 484-490

  Splett, Cynthia L ^a   Scheffen, Joseph R ^a   Desotelle, Joshua A ^a   Plamann, Vicky ^a   Bauer Dantoin, Angela C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GALANIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GABA MODULATORS; GALANIN; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIECTOMY; PENTOBARBITAL; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037321999     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220855     Document Type: Article

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