Developmental programming: Postnatal steroids complete prenatal steroid actions to differentially organize the GnRH surge mechanism and reproductive behavior in female sheep

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1612-1623

  Jackson, Leslie M ^a,c   Mytinger, Andrea ^b   Roberts, Eila K ^a   Lee, Theresa M ^a,d   Foster, Douglas L ^a   Padmanabhan, Vasantha ^a   Jansen, Heiko T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN FOS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHEEP;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ESTRADIOL; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHEEP; TESTOSTERONE; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84875856637     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1613     Document Type: Article

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