Hypothalamic inhibition of socio-sexual behaviour by increasing neuroestrogen synthesis

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ubuka, Takayoshi ^a   Haraguchi, Shogo ^a   Tobari, Yasuko ^a   Narihiro, Misato ^a   Ishikawa, Kei ^a   Hayashi, Takanori ^b   Harada, Nobuhiro ^b   Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; NEUROPEPTIDE; ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADOTROPIN INHIBITOR; HYPOTHALAMUS HORMONE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; GENETIC VARIATION; NEUROLOGY; PEPTIDE; SECRETION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FOOD INTAKE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE INHIBITION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COTURNIX; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COTURNIX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREOPTIC AREA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84892703078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4061     Document Type: Article

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