Minireview: Endocannabinoids and gonadal hormones: Bidirectional interactions in physiology and behavior

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1016-1024

  Gorzalka, Boris B ^a   Dang, Silvain S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (2,4 DICHLOROPHENYL) 5 (4 IODOPHENYL) 4 METHYL N (1 PIPERIDYL) 1H PYRAZOLE 3 CARBOXAMIDE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANANDAMIDE; ANDROGEN; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID 2 RECEPTOR; DELTA9(11) TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; DEXANABINOL; ENDOCANNABINOID; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

DOWN REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CANNABIS; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; ESTRADIOL; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROGESTERONE; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84857385709     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1643     Document Type: Short Survey

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