Middle-aged female rats lack the dynamic changes in GAD67 mRNA levels observed in young females on the day of a luteinising hormone surge

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 708-716

  Grove Strawser, D ^a   Jimenez Linan, M ^a   Rubin, Beverly S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; GABA; GnRH; Periventricular preoptic area; Rostral preoptic area

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYMES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 34548569387     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: 13652826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2007.01579.x     Document Type: Article

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