Control of puberty onset and fertility by gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 452-466

  Herbison, Allan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMIC AMENORRHEA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MEDIAN EMINENCE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBERTY; PULSE GENERATOR; REVIEW; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHEEP; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FERTILITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; NEURONS; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84969626023     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.70     Document Type: Review

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