Epigenetic regulation of female puberty

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 90-107

  Lomniczi, Alejandro ^a   Wright, Hollis ^a   Ojeda, Sergio R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin modifications; DNA methylation; Epigenetic regulators; Female puberty; GnRH neurons; Kisspeptin neurons; Long noncoding RNAs; MicroRNAs; Transcriptional activation; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GONADORELIN; HEXOSAMINE; HISTONE; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN TRXG; SIRTUIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEURONS; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84923888446     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: 10956808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2014.08.003     Document Type: Review

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