Neuroprogesterone: Key to estrogen positive feedback?

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 470-480

  Micevych, Paul ^a   Soma, Kiran K ^b   Sinchak, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3beta HSD; Astrocytes; Brain; Calcium; Estradiol; Estrogen positive feedback; Glial; Hypothalamus; LH; Lordosis; Luteinizing hormone; Membrane estrogen receptor; mGluR1a; Neurosteroid; Neurosteroids; Non genomic; Progesterone receptor; Rapid; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; CALCIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; NEUROSTEROID; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; THAPSIGARGIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; ASTROCYTE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVULATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ESTROGENS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; STEROIDS;

EID: 40849094623     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2007.06.009     Document Type: Review

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