Characteristic of hypothalamic kisspeptin expression in the pubertal development of precocious female rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 420, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-17

  Sun, Yan ^a   Tian, Zhanzhuang ^a   Zhao, Hong ^a,b   Wong, Stephen T C ^b   Chen, Boying ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Danazol; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Kisspeptin; Precocious puberty; Rat

Indexed keywords

DANAZOL; KISSPEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; DANAZOL; DENSITOMETRY; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; OVARY; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL MATURATION; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 34248998870     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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