Daily successive changes in reproductive gene expression and neuronal activation in the brains of pubertal female mice

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 401, Issue , 2015, Pages 84-97

  Semaan, Sheila J ^a   Kauffman, Alexander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GnIH; Kiss1; Kisspeptin; NKB; Puberty; RFRP 3

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; NEUROKININ B; PROTEIN C FOS; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; KISS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; KISS1R PROTEIN, MOUSE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PREPROTACHYKININ; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RFAMIDE PEPTIDE; TACHYKININ;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; KISS1 GENE; KISS1R GENE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREPUBERTY; PUBERTY; RFRP GENE; TAC2 GENE; VAGINA; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; KISSPEPTINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEXUAL MATURATION; TACHYKININS;

EID: 84919905578     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2014.11.025     Document Type: Article

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