Luteinizing hormone: Evidence for direct action in the CNS

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-62

  Blair, Jeffrey A ^a   Bhatta, Sabina ^a   McGee, Henry ^a   Casadesus, Gemma ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; HPG axis; Leuprolide acetate; Luteinizing hormone; Memory; Ovariectomy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANDROPAUSE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLIA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM;

AGING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, LH;

EID: 84947866256     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.06.020     Document Type: Article

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