Short communicationCentral injection of senktide, an NK3 receptor agonist, or neuropeptide Y inhibits LH secretion and induces different patterns of Fos expression in the rat hypothalamus
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank Miranda Anderson, Carla Escobar, Sally Krajewski, and Seth Stalcup for excellent technical support. Nathaniel T. McMullen provided useful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. T. Sandoval-Guzmán was a recipient of a Predoctoral Fellowship from the Robert S. Flinn Biomedical Research Initiative. The estradiol assay was performed at the University of Virginia Ligand Assay and Analysis Core (supported by NICHD grant U54-HD28934). This work was supported by NIH
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