Reporter transgenic mouse models highlight the dual endocrine and neural facet of GnRH receptor function

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1220, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-22

  Schang, Anne Laure ^a   Counis, Raymond ^a   Magre, Solange ^a   Bleux, Christian ^a   Granger, Anne ^b   Ngô Muller, Valérie ^a   Chenut, Marie Claude ^a   Ishaq, Muhammad ^a   Cohen Tannoudji, Joelle ^a   Laverrière, Jean Noël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GnRH receptor; Neuroendocrinology; Promoter activity; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GONAD FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMAL; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; OVARY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS; RATTUS;

EID: 79952464155     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05886.x     Document Type: Article

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