Neuroendocrine control of reproductive aging: Roles of GnRH neurons

Reproduction

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 403-414

  Yin, Weiling ^a   Gore, Andrea C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADORELIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AGING; BIOSYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIA; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSECRETION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CYCLE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PRIMATES;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 33645230428     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00617     Document Type: Review

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