Differential effects of hypothalamic IGF-I on gonadotropin releasing hormone neuronal activation during steroid-induced LH surges in young and middle-aged female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4276-4287

  Sun, Yan ^a   Todd, Brigitte J ^a   Thornton, Kimberly ^a   Etgen, Anne M ^a   Neal Perry, Genevieve ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; FEMALE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; OVARIECTOMY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ZONA INCERTA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 80054945592     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1051     Document Type: Article

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