A new pathway mediating social effects on the endocrine system: Female presence acting via norepinephrine release stimulates gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone in the paraventricular nucleus and suppresses luteinizing hormone in quail

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 29, 2014, Pages 9803-9811

  Tobari, Yasuko ^a   Son, You Lee ^a   Ubuka, Takayoshi ^a   Hasegawa, Yoshihisa ^b   Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bird; Monoamine; Neurochemical pathway; Neuropeptide; Social signal; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MONOAMINE; NEUROCHEMICAL PATHWAY; NEUROPEPTIDE; SOCIAL SIGNAL; VISUAL STIMULI;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NOREPINEPHRINE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; QUAIL; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84904278730     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3706-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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