The gentle art of saying NO: How nitric oxide gets things done in the hypothalamus

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 521-535

  Chachlaki, Konstantina ^a,b   Garthwaite, John ^c   Prevot, Vincent ^a,b  

^a JEAN PIERRE AUBERT RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE;

BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; METABOLIC REGULATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GONAD; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROSECRETION; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; OVARY; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85028614486     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2017.69     Document Type: Review

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