Balancing ovulation and anovulation: Integration of the reproductive and energy balance axes by neuropeptides

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 313-332

  Evans, J J ^a,b   Anderson, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Estrogen; Food intake; Hypothalamic amenorrhoea; Infertility

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; GALANIN; GALANIN LIKE PEPTIDE; GHRELIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN; KISSPEPTIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OXYTOCIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; METABOLIC DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OBESITY; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANOVULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONADS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LEPTIN; NEUROENDOCRINE CELLS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84859938555     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dms004     Document Type: Article

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