Loss of Fertility in the Absence of Progesterone Receptor Expression in Kisspeptin Neurons of Female Mice

Arnon Gal; Po-Ching Lin; Joseph A. Cacioppo; Patrick R. Hannon; Megan M. Mahoney; Andrew Wolfe; Rodrigo Fernandez-Valdivia; John P. Lydon; Carol F. Elias; CheMyong Ko

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159534

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Loss of Fertility in the Absence of Progesterone Receptor Expression in Kisspeptin Neurons of Female Mice

Arnon Gal,

Affiliations Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America
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Po-Ching Lin,

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America
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Joseph A. Cacioppo,

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America
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Patrick R. Hannon,

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America
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Megan M. Mahoney,

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America
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Andrew Wolfe,

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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Rodrigo Fernandez-Valdivia,

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, United States of America; Tumor Biology Microenvironment Program, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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John P. Lydon,

Affiliation Center of Reproductive Medicine and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America
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Carol F. Elias,

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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CheMyong Ko

* E-mail: jayko@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0963-3731

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Loss of Fertility in the Absence of Progesterone Receptor Expression in Kisspeptin Neurons of Female Mice

Arnon Gal,
Po-Ching Lin,
Joseph A. Cacioppo,
Patrick R. Hannon,
Megan M. Mahoney,
Andrew Wolfe,
Rodrigo Fernandez-Valdivia,
John P. Lydon,
Carol F. Elias,
CheMyong Ko

Published: July 21, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159534

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