Kisspeptin neurons in the ovine arcuate nucleus and preoptic area are involved in the preovulatory luteinizing hormone surge

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5530-5538

  Smith, Jeremy T ^a   Li, Q ^a   Pereira, A ^a   Clarke, I J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADORELIN RELEASE; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIECTOMY; OVULATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; OVULATION; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 71949094687     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0712     Document Type: Article

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