Effects of photoperiod and food restriction on the reproductive physiology of female California mice

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 391-399

  Steinman, Michael Q ^a   Knight, Jennifer A ^a   Trainor, Brian C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food restriction; Glia; GnRH; Peromyscus; Photoperiod; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY; OVIDUCT; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; UTERUS; ZONA INCERTA;

EID: 84859924140     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.12.035     Document Type: Article

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