Timing and completion of puberty in female mice depend on estrogen receptor α-signaling in kisspeptin neurons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 52, 2010, Pages 22693-22698

  Mayer, Christian ^a   Acosta Martinez, Maricedes ^b   Dubois, Sharon L ^b   Wolfe, Andrew ^c   Radovick, Sally ^c   Boehm, Ulrich ^a   Levine, Jon E ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anteroventral periventricular nucleus; Arcuate nucleus; Conditional gene targeting; Estradiol 17 ; Kiss1

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROSECRETION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 78651102603     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012406108     Document Type: Article

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