Kisspeptin-GPR54 signaling is essential for preovulatory gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron activation and the luteinizing hormone surge

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 8691-8697

  Clarkson, Jenny ^a   D'Anglemont De Tassigny, Xavier ^b   Moreno, Adriana Santos ^a   Colledge, William H ^b   Herbison, Allan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estrogen (estradiol); GnRH; Gonadotropin; GPR54; Kisspeptin; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GESTAGEN; KISS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; KISS1R PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WILD TYPE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 52049083005     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1775-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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