Kisspeptin: A key link to seasonal breeding

Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-65

  Revel, Florent G ^a   Ansel, Laura ^a   Klosen, Paul ^a   Saboureau, Michel ^a   Pévet, Paul ^a   Mikkelsen, Jens D ^b   Simonneaux, Valérie ^a  

^a Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg   (France)

^b NEUROSEARCH A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

GPR54; KiSS 1; Melatonin; Photoperiod; Reproduction; Syrian hamster

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; KISSPEPTIN; KISSPEPTIN 10; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN; METASTIN; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BREEDING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUMMER; WINTER;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MESOCRICETUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 34047198694     PISSN: 13899155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11154-007-9031-7     Document Type: Review

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