Role of leptin in female reproduction

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-28

  Pérez Pérez, Antonio ^a   Sánchez Jiménez, Flora ^a   Maymó, Julieta ^b   Dueñas, José L ^a   Varone, Cecilia ^b   Sánchez Margalet, Víctor ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

infertility; leptin; reproduction

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; STAT5 PROTEIN;

ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERTILITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LACTATION; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FUNCTION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; METABOLISM; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GONADOTROPHS; HUMANS; LEPTIN; OVARY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84916227033     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0387     Document Type: Review

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