Gonadotropin-releasing hormone fibers contact POMC neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1024-1028

  Sotonyi, Peter ^a,b   Mezei, Gabor ^b   Racz, Bence ^a   Dallman, Mary F ^c   Abizaid, Alfonso ^b,d   Horvath, Tamas L ^b  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; hypothalamus; metabolism; neuroanatomy; reproduction

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; GONADORELIN; MELANOCORTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEEDING; FEMALE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MICE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN;

EID: 77957977385     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719110378346     Document Type: Article

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