Effects of experimental hyperandrogenemia on the female rat reproductive axis: Suppression of progesterone-receptor messenger RNA expression in the brain and blockade of luteinizing hormone surges

Gender Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 155-165

  Foecking, Eileen M ^a   Levine, Jon E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Luteinizing hormone; Progesterone receptor; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHESIS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HYPERANDROGENISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 28244436487     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1550-8579(05)80044-0     Document Type: Article

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