Role of neuropeptide Y in regulating hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis in the rats treated with electro-acupuncture

Neuropeptides

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 133-139

  Zhaohui, Zhang ^a   Jingzhu, Zhou ^a   Guipeng, Ding ^a   Xuesong, Wang ^a   Yuanming, Zhong ^a   Yinping, Wang ^a   Yugui, Cui ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electro acupuncture; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Hypothalamus pituitary; Neuropeptide Y; PCR

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; JUVENILE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84860673299     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: 15322785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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