Immunohistochemical analysis of the colocalization of corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor and glucocorticoid receptor in kisspeptin neurons in the hypothalamus of female rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 531, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-45

  Takumi, Ken ^a   Iijima, Norio ^a   Higo, Shimpei ^a   Ozawa, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH); Corticotropin releasing hormone receptor (CRH R); Glucocorticoid receptor (GR); Kisspeptin; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; KISSPEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KISSPEPTINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 84869091999     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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