Epigenetic control of female puberty

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 281-289

  Lomniczi, Alejandro ^a   Loche, Alberto ^a,d   Castellano, Juan Manuel ^a   Ronnekleiv, Oline K ^a,b   Bosch, Martha ^b   Kaidar, Gabi ^a,e   Knoll, J Gabriel ^a,f   Wright, Hollis ^a   Pfeifer, Gerd P ^c   Ojeda, Sergio R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^e MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

^f OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; HISTONE H3; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROLACTIN; HISTONE; KISSPEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CBX7 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EED GENE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; KISS1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PUBERTY; RAT; SILENCER GENE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HISTONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; KISSPEPTINS; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875896284     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3319     Document Type: Article

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