Positive, but not negative feedback actions of estradiol in adult female mice require estrogen receptor α in kisspeptin neurons

Endocrinology (United States)

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1111-1120

  Dubois, Sharon L ^a,b   Acosta Martínez, Maricedes ^c   DeJoseph, Mary R ^d   Wolfe, Andrew ^e   Radovick, Sally ^e   Boehm, Ulrich ^f   Urban, Janice H ^d   Levine, Jon E ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTEROVENTRAL PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84923879286     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1851     Document Type: Article

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