Loss of Fertility in the Absence of Progesterone Receptor Expression in Kisspeptin Neurons of Female Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Gal, Arnon ^a,b   Lin, Po Ching ^b   Cacioppo, Joseph A ^b   Hannon, Patrick R ^b   Mahoney, Megan M ^b   Wolfe, Andrew ^c   Fernandez Valdivia, Rodrigo ^d,e   Lydon, John P ^f   Elias, Carol F ^g   Ko, CheMyong ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR GENE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KISSPEPTINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84979670064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159534     Document Type: Article

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