Attenuation of preoptic area glutamate release correlates with reduced luteinizing hormone secretion in middle-aged female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 146, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4331-4339

  Neal Perry, Genevieve S ^a   Zeevalk, Gail D ^b   Santoro, Nanette F ^a   Etgen, Anne M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GLUTAMIC ACID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; HYPOTHESIS; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; JUGULAR VEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICRODIALYSIS; PERIODICITY; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 24944487970     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-0575     Document Type: Article

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