The decline in pulsatile GnRH release, as reflected by circulating lH concentrations, during the infant-juvenile transition in the agonadal male rhesus monkey (macaca mulatta) is associated with a reduction in kisspeptin content of KNDy neurons of the arcuate nucleus in the hypothalamus

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1845-1853

  Ramaswamy, Suresh ^a,c   Dwarki, Karthik ^a,c   Ali, Barkat ^a,c   Gibbs, Robert B ^b   Plant, Tony M ^a,c  

^a Epidemiology and Womens Studies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEUROKININ B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADAL AGENESIS; GONADORELIN RELEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANCY; JUVENILE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDIOBASAL HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PUBERTY; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; DOWN-REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; ORCHIECTOMY; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PULSATILE FLOW; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84876761069     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-2154     Document Type: Article

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