Pup removal suppresses estrogen-induced surges of LH secretion and activation of GnRH neurons in lactating rats

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 339-348

  Fukushima, Atsushi ^a   Yin, Ping ^a   Ishida, Maho ^a   Sugiyama, Nobuhiro ^a   Arita, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST FEEDING; CELL ACTIVATION; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INDWELLING CATHETER; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUCKING; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LACTATION; LITTER SIZE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROGESTERONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33751042962     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06728     Document Type: Article

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