Minireview: The neuroendocrine regulation of puberty: Is the time ripe for a systems biology approach?

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1166-1174

  Ojeda, Sergio R ^a   Lomniczi, Alejandro ^a   Mastronardi, Claudio ^a   Heger, Sabine ^b   Roth, Christian ^a,c   Parent, Anne Simone ^a,e   Matagne, Valérie ^a   Mungenast, Alison E ^a,d  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GONADORELIN; MESSENGER RNA;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLIA CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PUBERTY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DNA; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; PUBERTY; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 32644439450     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-1136     Document Type: Short Survey

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