Role of Kisspeptin/GPR54 system in human reproductive axis

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 39, Issue , 2010, Pages 13-24

  Silveira, Leticia F G ^a   Teles, Milena G ^a   Trarbach, Ericka B ^a   Latronico, Ana Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; KISSPEPTIN; SEX HORMONE;

HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 77956210285     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000312689     Document Type: Review

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