Metabolic control of puberty: Roles of leptin and kisspeptins

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-194

  Sanchez Garrido, Miguel A ^a,b   Tena Sempere, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energy homeostasis; Kisspeptins; Leptin; Metabolism; Puberty

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERTILITY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPERLEPTINEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LEPTIN DEFICIENCY; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLIC STRESS; MORBID OBESITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ENERGY HOMEOSTASIS; KISSPEPTINS; LEPTIN; METABOLISM; PUBERTY;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; KISSPEPTINS; LEPTIN; MAMMALS; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84883374084     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.01.014     Document Type: Review

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