Age- and sex-specific changes in naloxone-induced luteinizing hormone secretion and Fos expression in gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons of gonadectomized rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 471, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 157-161

  Funabashi, Toahiya ^a   Furuta, Miyako ^a,b   Fukushima, Atsushi ^a   Kimura, Fukuko ^a,c  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Immediate early genes; Luteinizing hormone; Opioid; Pulse

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NALOXONE; PROTEIN FOS; SEX HORMONE;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSE GENERATOR; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURONS; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 76749121291     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.01.032     Document Type: Article

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