Prolactin regulates kisspeptin neurons in the arcuate nucleus to suppress LH secretion in female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1010-1020

  Araujo Lopes, Roberta ^a   Crampton, Jessica R ^b   Aquino, Nayara S S ^a   Miranda, Roberta M ^a   Kokay, Ilona C ^b   Reis, Adelina M ^a   Franci, Celso R ^c   Grattan, David R ^b   Szawka, Raphael E ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; ESTRADIOL; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; STAT5 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; FEMALE; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; METESTRUS; MILK PRODUCTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BROMOCRIPTINE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROLACTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SHEEP; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84896878182     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1889     Document Type: Article

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