Insight into the neuroendocrine site and cellular mechanism by which cortisol suppresses pituitary responsiveness to gonadotropin-releasing hormone

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 767-773

  Breen, Kellie M ^a,b,d   Davis, Tracy L ^c   Doro, Lisa C ^a,b   Nett, Terry M ^c   Oakley, Amy E ^a,b   Padmanabhan, Vasantha ^a,b   Rispoli, Louisa A ^c   Wagenmaker, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Karsch, Fred J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GONADORELIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; OVARIECTOMY; PITUITARY GLAND; RECEPTORS, LHRH; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP;

EID: 38549131444     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0773     Document Type: Article

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