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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2013

Kisspeptin and puberty in mammals.

Ei Terasawa, Kathryn A Guerriero, Tony M Plant

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Disorders of puberty and neurodevelopment: A shared etiology?Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024
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  9. Overexpression ofMolecules and cells · 2022
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  10. Variation in Hypothalamic GnIH Expression and Its Association withAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022
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  16. Congenital ablation ofAmerican journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2021
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  17. Direct evidence that KNDy neurons maintain gonadotropin pulses and folliculogenesis as the GnRH pulse generator.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ei TerasawaWisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53715-1299, USA. terasawa@primate.wisc.edu
Kathryn A Guerriero
Tony M Plant

Funding

WNPRC Supplemental Request for Nonhuman Primate Enclosures to Equip HIV/AIDS-Related Research FacilitiesP51OD011106 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska · 2012 to 2026
$150.7M
Xenografting and Organ Culture of Testicular Tissue: Two Novel Tools to Study PRU54HD008610 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI PLANT, TONY M · 2000 to 2010
$11.5M
HYPOTHALAMIC CONTROL OF PUBERTYR01HD011355 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI TERASAWA-GRILLEY, EI · 1985 to 2011
$3.5M
HYPOTHALAMIC CONTROL OF GONADOTROPIN SECRETIONR01HD015433 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI TERASAWA-GRILLEY, EI · 1985 to 2011
$3.2M
THE ONTOGENY OF GONADOTROPIN SECRETION IN THE MONKEYR01HD013254 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI PLANT, TONY M · 1985 to 2009
$3.1M
Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Training GrantT32HD041921 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BIRD, IAN M. · 2004 to 2022
$3.0M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD011355NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD013254NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD015433NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD11355NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD15433NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD041921NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD008610NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD08160NIH HHS P51 OD011106PHS HHS P51 0D011106
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the discovery of the G-protein coupled receptor 54 (kisspeptin receptor) and its ligand, kisspeptin, our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms that govern the pituitary-gonadal axis has evolved dramatically. In this chapter, we have reviewed progress regarding the relationship between kisspeptin and puberty, and have proposed a novel hypothesis for the role of kisspeptin signaling in the onset of this crucial developmental event. According to this hypothesis, although kisspeptin neurons in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) are critical for puberty, this is simply because these cells are an integral component of the hypothalamic GnRH pulse generating mechanism that drives intermittent release of the decapeptide, as an increase in GnRH is obligatory for the onset of puberty. In our model, ARC kisspeptin neurons play no "regulatory" role in controlling the timing of puberty. Rather, as a component of the neural network responsible for GnRH pulse generation, they subserve upstream regulatory mechanisms that are responsible for the timing of puberty.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalAnimalsArcuate Nucleus of HypothalamusFemaleGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneHumansKisspeptinsMaleNeuronsPituitary GlandPubertySignal TransductionGonadotropin-Releasing HormoneKISS1 protein, humanKisspeptins

Identifiers

PMID23550010
PMCPMC3996677

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