Knockdown of hypothalamic RFRP3 prevents chronic stress-induced infertility and embryo resorption

eLife

Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Geraghty, Anna C ^a   Muroy, Sandra E ^a   Zhao, Sheng ^a   Bentley, George E ^a   Kriegsfeld, Lance J ^a   Kaufer, Daniela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; NEUROPEPTIDE; RFAMIDE RELATED PEPTIDE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DOXYCYCLINE; HYPOTHALAMUS HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; RFAMIDE-RELATED PEPTIDE-3, RAT; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; EMBRYO RESORPTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LORDOSIS; MATING SUCCESS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; EMBRYO DEATH; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENETICS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; REPRODUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UPREGULATION;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; DOXYCYCLINE; EMBRYO LOSS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 85006269394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04316     Document Type: Article

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