Organizational and activational effects of sex steroids on kisspeptin neuron development

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-17

  Poling, Matthew C ^a   Kauffman, Alexander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; GnRH; GPR54; Kiss1; Kiss1r; Kisspeptin; Puberty; Reproduction; Sex difference; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; SEX HORMONE;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; KISS1 GENE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; KISSPEPTINS; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PUBERTY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84875279615     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: 10956808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2012.06.001     Document Type: Review

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