Neuroanatomical Evidence That Kisspeptin Directly Regulates Isotocin and Vasotocin Neurons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kanda, Shinji ^a   Akazome, Yasuhisa ^a   Mitani, Yuta ^a   Okubo, Kataaki ^b   Oka, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; GPR54 1 KISSPEPTIN RECEPTOR; GPR54 2 KISSPEPTIN RECEPTOR; ISOTOCIN; KISSPEPTIN; KISSPEPTIN 1; KISSPEPTIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN; GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PREOPTICUS PARS MAGNOCELLULARIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL;

MAMMALIA; ORYZIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KISSPEPTINS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84876729689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062776     Document Type: Article

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