Central clock regulates the cervically stimulated prolactin surges by modulation of dopamine and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide release in ovariectomized rats

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-188

  Poletini, Maristela O ^a,b   Kennett, Jessica E ^a   McKee, De'Nise T ^a   Freeman, Marc E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior pituitary; Circadian rhythm; Clock genes; Mating; Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; DOPAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; PER1 PROTEIN; PER2 PROTEIN; PROLACTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CERVICAL STIMULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; INJECTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOCK PROTEINS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; OVARIECTOMY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 77949917187     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000254379     Document Type: Article

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