Stress and reproduction: Controversies and challenges

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-257

  Chand, Dhan ^a   Lovejoy, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; HPA; HPG; Urocortin; Urotensin I

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; UROCORTIN I; UROCORTIN II; UROCORTIN III;

DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE STRUCTURE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRESS; STRESS MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79953758496     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.02.022     Document Type: Review

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