Alterations in RFamide-related peptide expression are coordinated with the preovulatory luteinizing hormone surge

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4958-4969

  Gibson, Erin M ^a   Humber, Stephanie A ^a   Jain, Sachi ^a   Williams III, Wilbur P ^a   Zhao, Sheng ^a   Bentley, George E ^a   Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ^b   Kriegsfeld, Lance J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN RFRP; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LIGHTING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHOTOPERIOD; PITUITARY GLAND; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 53249119327     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0316     Document Type: Article

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