Neuroestradiol in the stalk median eminence of female rhesus macaques decreases in association with puberty onset

Endocrinology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 70-76

  Kenealy, Brian P ^a   Keen, Kim L ^a   Kapoor, Amita ^a   Terasawa, Ei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RHESUS MONKEY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DOWN REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPOPHYSIS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; OVARY; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEXUAL MATURATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VETERINARY; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOWN-REGULATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEURONS; OVARY; OVULATION; PITUITARY GLAND; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEXUAL MATURATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84954560871     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-1770     Document Type: Article

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