A microRNA switch regulates the rise in hypothalamic GnRH production before puberty

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 835-844

  Messina, Andrea ^a,b,h   Langlet, Fanny ^a,b,c   Chachlaki, Konstantina ^a,b   Roa, Juan ^d,e,f   Rasika, Sowmyalakshmi ^g   Jouy, Nathalie ^a,b   Gallet, Sarah ^a,b   Gaytan, Francisco ^d,e,f   Parkash, Jyoti ^a,b,i   Tena Sempere, Manuel ^d,e,f   Giacobini, Paolo ^a,b   Prevot, Vincent ^a,b  

^a JEAN PIERRE AUBERT RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^e Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^g INSERM   (France)

^h LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

ⁱ CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF PUNJAB   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN BETA; DICER; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 200; NITRIC OXIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZEB1;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEBPB GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE KNOCKDOWN; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINE REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZEB1 GENE; AGING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; HYPOGONADISM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FERTILITY; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRORNAS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84965047044     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4298     Document Type: Article

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