Lateralization of circadian pacemaker output: Activation of left- and right-sided luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurons involves a neural rather than a humoral pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 7412-7414

  De la Iglesia, Horacio O ^a,b   Meyer, Jennifer ^a   Schwartz, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fos; Gonadotropin; Hypothalamus; Luteinizing hormone; Preoptic; Suprachiasmatic

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SECRETION; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LIGHT; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RUNNING; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0042237835     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-19-07412.2003     Document Type: Article

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