Kisspeptin expression in guinea pig hypothalamus: Effects of 17β-estradiol

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2143-2162

  Bosch, Martha A ^a   Xue, Changhui ^a   Rønnekleiv, Oline K ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunocytochemistry; Indexing terms: In situ hybridization; Quantitative real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUINEA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KISS1 GENE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIENCEPHALON; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUINEA PIGS; HYPOTHALAMUS; KISSPEPTINS; OVARIECTOMY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84859708227     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23032     Document Type: Article

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