Potential clinical use of kisspeptin

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 238-245

  Prague, Julia K ^a   Dhillo, Waljit S ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin; Kisspeptin; Novel therapies

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; KISSPEPTIN; KISSPEPTIN 10; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METASTIN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; KISS1R PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESENSITIZATION; EXON; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GONADOTROPIN HORMONE RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMIC AMENORRHEA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OOCYTE MATURATION; POINT MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PUBERTY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STOP CODON; SUBFERTILITY; TACHYPHYLAXIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERTILITY; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERTILITY; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NEURONS; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84947491471     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000439133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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