Hypothalamic IGF-I gene therapy prolongs estrous cyclicity and protects ovarian structure in middle-aged female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2166-2173

  Rodríguez, Silvia S ^a   Schwerdt, José I ^a   Barbeito, Claudio G ^b   Flamini, Mirta A ^b   Han, Ye ^c   Bohn, Martha C ^c   Goya, Rodolfo G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOQUÍMICAS DE LA PLATA INIBIOLP   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT ADENOASSOCIATED VIRUS; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE THERAPY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VAGINA SMEAR;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DEPENDOVIRUS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENETIC THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OVARY; PROLACTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 84878426010     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1069     Document Type: Article

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