Progesterone blockade of a luteinizing hormone surge blocks luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone Fos activation and activation of its preoptic area afferents - Le, Wei-Wei; Attardi, Barbara; Berghorn, Kathie A; Blaustein, Jeffrey; Hoffman, Gloria E (Brain research, 1997)
Keywords: Animals; Estrogens; Female; Genes, Immediate-Early - physiology; Gonadotrophin releasing hormone; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone - metabolism; Hypothalamus; Immediate–early gene protein; Luteinizing Hormone - blood; Neurons, Afferent - chemistry; Neurons, Afferent - drug effects; Neurons, Afferent - metabolism; Ovulation; Preoptic Area - chemistry; Preoptic Area - cytology; Preoptic Area - metabolism; Progesterone - pharmacology; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos - biosynthesis; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos - metabolism; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, Progesterone - agonists; Steroid hormone; Immediate–early gene protein; Hypothalamus; Steroid hormone; Gonadotrophin releasing hormone; Ovulation; Estrogens