The fetal hypothalamus has the potential to generate cells with a gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) phenotype

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Salvi, Roberto ^a   Arsenijevic, Yvan ^a   Giacomini, Marco ^a   Rey, Jean Pierre ^a   Voirol, Marie Jeanne ^a   Gaillard, Rolf Christian ^a   Risold, Pierre Yves ^c   Pralong, François ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GONADORELIN; HORMONE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROSPHERE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; TISSUE CULTURE;

RATTUS;

EID: 84887212534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004392     Document Type: Article

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