Global but not gonadotrope-specific disruption of bmal1 abolishes the luteinizing hormone surge without affecting ovulation

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2924-2935

  Chu, Adrienne ^a   Zhu, Lei ^a   Blum, Ian D ^a   Mai, Oliver ^b   Leliavski, Alexei ^d   Fahrenkrug, Jan ^c   Oster, Henrik ^d   Boehm, Ulrich ^b   Storch, Kai Florian ^a,e  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; PROTEIN BMAL1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ARNTL TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CRYPTOCHROMES; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPHS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVULATION; PITUITARY GLAND; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880649647     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1080     Document Type: Article

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