Kisspeptin neurons mediate reflex ovulation in the musk shrew (Suncus murinus)

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

Volumn 108, Issue 42, 2011, Pages 17527-17532

  Inoue, Naoko ^a   Sasagawa, Karin ^a   Ikai, Kotaro ^a   Sasaki, Yuki ^a   Tomikawa, Junko ^a   Oishi, Shinya ^b   Fujii, Nobutaka ^b   Uenoyama, Yoshihisa ^a   Ohmori, Yasushige ^a   Yamamoto, Naoyuki ^a   Hondo, Eiichi ^a   Maeda, Kei Ichiro ^a   Tsukamura, Hiroko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Copulation; Kiss1r; Metastin; Ovary

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTRADIOL; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; KISSPEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INJECTION; MATING; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REFLEX OVULATION; SHREW; SUNCUS MURINUS; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BASE SEQUENCE; COPULATION; CORPUS LUTEUM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; KISSPEPTINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PHYLOGENY; PREOPTIC AREA; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHREWS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

SUNCUS; SUNCUS MURINUS;

EID: 80054825677     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113035108     Document Type: Article

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