GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING-HORMONE NEURONS IN THE RHESUS MACAQUE ARE NOT IMMUNOREACTIVE FOR THE ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR

Authors
SULLIVAN KA WITKIN JW FERIN M SILVERMAN AJ
Citation
Ka. Sullivan et al., GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING-HORMONE NEURONS IN THE RHESUS MACAQUE ARE NOT IMMUNOREACTIVE FOR THE ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR, Brain research, 685(1-2), 1995, pp. 198-200
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences
Journal title
Brain research → ACNP
ISSN journal
00068993
Volume
685
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
198 - 200
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-8993(1995)685:1-2<198:GNITRM>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
The issue of whether gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons in the primate contain the estrogen receptor was examined by immunocytoch emistry using prepubertal and adult (intact and ovariectomized) female rhesus macaques. No GnRH neurons were found to contain nuclei that we re immunoreactive for the estrogen receptor. These results confirm in primates what has been reported in other species and leave open the qu estion of how the effects of gonadal steroids on GnRH neurons are medi ated.