PACAP modulates GnRH signaling in gonadotropes

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 385, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 45-55

  Halvorson, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

GnRH; GnRH receptor; Gonadotropin; PACAP; PACAP receptor

Indexed keywords

FOLLISTATIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; STEROID; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR 1;

GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

GNRH; GNRH RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; PACAP; PACAP RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPHS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84896691438     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2013.09.029     Document Type: Review

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