Kisspeptin is essential for the full preovulatory LH surge and stimulates GnRH release from the isolated ovine median eminence

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1001-1012

  Smith, Jeremy T ^a   Li, Qun ^a   Yap, Kai Sing ^a   Shahab, Muhammad ^b   Roseweir, Antonia K ^c   Millar, Robert P ^c,d   Clarke, Iain J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; KISSPEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; P 271; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EWE; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL PHASE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIECTOMY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; OVARIECTOMY; PEPTIDES; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 79951905861     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-1225     Document Type: Article

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