Endogenous kisspeptin tone is a critical excitatory component of spontaneous GnRH activity and the GnRH response to NPY and CART

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 190-203

  Verma, Saurabh ^a,b   Kirigiti, Melissa A ^a   Millar, Robert P ^c   Grove, Kevin L ^a   Smith, M Susan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript; Electrophysiology; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Kisspeptin; Neuropeptide Y

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; KP 10; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDE Y5 RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE 347; PEPTIDE HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KISS1 PROTEIN, RAT; NERVE PROTEIN; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; OVARIECTOMY; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPTIC AREA; TRANSGENIC RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; KISSPEPTINS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OVARIECTOMY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 84908613414     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000365419     Document Type: Article

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