The evaluation of estradiol and leptin action on the activity of the somatotropic and gonadotropic axes in peripubertal female rats

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 138-148

  Wolińska Witort, Ewa ^a   Martynska, Lidia ^a   Chmielowska, Magdalena ^a   Wasilewska Dziubinska, Elzbieta ^a   Bik, Wojciech ^a   Baranowska, Boguslawa ^a  

^a MEDICAL CENTER FOR POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Estrogen receptor; Female rat; FSH; GH; IGF I; Leptin; LH; LHRH; Puberty

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LEPTIN; RADIOLIGAND; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENITAL SYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PUBERTY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT;

EID: 84862283409     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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