Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone is a hypothalamic peptide that provides a molecular switch between reproduction and feeding

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 305-316

  Clarke, Iain J ^a   Smith, Jeremy T ^a   Henry, Belinda A ^a   Oldfield, Brian J ^a   Stefanidis, Aneta ^a   Millar, Robert P ^b,g   Sari, Ika Puspita ^a   Chng, Keefe ^c   Fabre Nys, Claude ^e   Caraty, Alain ^e   Ang, Beng Ti ^d   Chan, Louiza ^d   Fraley, Gregory S ^f  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^e UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^f Department of Biology and Neuroscience Program   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Energy expenditure; Orexigen; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; GONADOTROPIN INHIBITORY HORMONE 3; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYPOTHALAMUS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLORHINI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENES, SWITCH; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SHEEP;

EID: 84862766066     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332822     Document Type: Article

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