Evidence that orphanin FQ mediates progesterone negative feedback in the ewe

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4249-4258

  Nestor, Casey C ^a   Coolen, Lique M ^b   Nesselrod, Gail L ^a   Valent, Miro ^a   Connors, John M ^a   Hileman, Stanley M ^a   Cheng, Guanliang ^b   Lehman, Michael N ^b   Goodman, Robert L ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; N (4 AMINO 2 METHYL 6 QUINOLINYL) 2 (4 ETHYLPHENOXYMETHYL)BENZAMIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NOCICEPTIN; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; STEROID RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UFP 101; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL PHASE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PULSE RATE;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTRUS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURONS; OPIOID PEPTIDES; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; SHEEP;

EID: 84886474900     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1274     Document Type: Article

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