ArticleScientific reports2019
Kisspeptin/Neurokinin B/Dynorphin (KNDy) cells as integrators of diverse internal and external cues: evidence from viral-based monosynaptic tract-tracing in mice.
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- Comprehensive chemoanatomical mapping, and the gonadal regulation, of seven kisspeptin neuronal populations in the mouse brain.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Anatomic distribution of kisspeptin neurons in the adult sheep amygdala: Associations with sex, estrogen receptor alpha, androgen receptor, and sexual partner preference.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2025Article
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- Brainstem Noradrenergic Neuronal Populations: Dual Effects on Regulating GnRH and LH Secretion.Endocrinology · 2025Review
- Norepinephrine Neurons in the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract Suppress Luteinizing Hormone Secretion in Female Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neuronal network dynamics in the posterodorsal amygdala: shaping reproductive hormone pulsatility.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
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- Neuroendocrine disturbances in women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea: an update and future directions.Endocrine · 2024Review
- Raphe glucose-sensing serotonergic neurons stimulate KNDy neurons to enhance LH pulses via 5HT2CR: rat and goat studies.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- NK3R signalling in the posterodorsal medial amygdala is involved in stress-induced suppression of pulsatile LH secretion in female mice.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Current Insights in Prolactin Signaling and Ovulatory Function.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Long-term Recordings of Arcuate Nucleus Kisspeptin Neurons Across the Mouse Estrous Cycle.Endocrinology · 2024Article
- Mechanisms linking neurological disorders with reproductive endocrine dysfunction: Insights from epilepsy research.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2023Review
- Low-Dose Estrogens as Neuroendocrine Modulators in Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (FHA): The Putative Triggering of the Positive Feedback Mechanism(s).Biomedicines · 2023Review
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Abstract
Neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) that co-express kisspeptin, neurokinin B and dynorphin (KNDy cells) are essential for mammalian reproduction as key regulators of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion. Although multiple endogenous and exogenous signals act indirectly via KNDy neurons to regulate GnRH, the identity of upstream neurons that provide synaptic input to this subpopulation is unclear. We used rabies-mediated tract-tracing in transgenic Kiss1-Cre mice combined with whole-brain optical clearing and multiple-label immunofluorescence to create a comprehensive and quantitative brain-wide map of neurons providing monosynaptic input to KNDy cells, as well as identify the estrogen receptor content and peptidergic phenotype of afferents. Over 90% of monosynaptic input to KNDy neurons originated from hypothalamic nuclei in both male and female mice. The greatest input arose from non-KNDy ARC neurons, including proopiomelanocortin-expressing cells. Significant female-dominant sex differences in afferent input were detected from estrogen-sensitive hypothalamic nuclei critical for reproductive endocrine function and sexual behavior in mice, indicating KNDy cells may provide a unique site for the coordination of sex-specific behavior and gonadotropin release. These data provide key insight into the structural framework underlying the ability of KNDy neurons to integrate endogenous and environmental signals important for the regulation of reproductive function.
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