Selective deletion of leptin receptors in gonadotropes reveals activin and GnRH-binding sites as leptin targets in support of fertility

Endocrinology (United States)

Volumn 155, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4027-4042

  Akhter, Noor ^a   Lee, Tyler Carl ^a   Syed, Mohsin M ^a   Odle, Angela K ^a   Cozart, Michael A ^a   Haney, Anessa C ^a   Allensworth James, Melody L ^a   Beneš, Helen ^a   Childs, Gwen V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN A; CORTICOTROPIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; MYELOPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; LOXP SITE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROESTRUS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUBERTY; RAT; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GONADOTROPHS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LEPTIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN;

EID: 84907221163     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1132     Document Type: Article

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