An increase in in vivo release of LHRH and precocious puberty by posterior hypothalamic lesions in female rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 292, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Windsor Engnell, Bret M ^a   Kasuya, Etsuko ^a   Mizuno, Masaharu ^a   Keen, Kim L ^a   Terasawa, Ei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lesions in the hypothalamus; Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone; Primates; Timing of puberty

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS, POSTERIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MENARCHE; OVULATION; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34047212303     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00493.2006     Document Type: Article

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