The gonadotropin-releasing hormone cell-specific element is required for normal puberty and estrous cyclicity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3336-3343

  Novaira, Horacio J ^a   Yates, Melissa ^a   Diaczok, Daniel ^a   Kim, Helen ^b   Wolfe, Andrew ^a   Radovick, Sally ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ENHANCER REGION; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROMOTER REGION; PUBERTY; VAGINA; WILD TYPE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 79952276015     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5419-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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