Androgens increase gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron firing activity in females and interfere with progesterone negative feedback

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1474-1479

  Pielecka, Justyna ^a   Quaynor, Samuel D ^a   Moenter, Suzanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESTRADIOL; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PROGESTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 32644440014     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-1029     Document Type: Article

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