Hormones and Behavior 62(4) 375-380 2012年9月 [査読有り]
Reproductive behavior in amphibians, as in other vertebrate animals, is controlled by multiple hormones. A neurosteroid, 7α-hydroxypregnenolone, has recently been found to enhance locomotor activity in the male newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster. Here, we ...
We investigated the effects of a bioartificial endocrine pancreas (Bio-AEP) produced by mouse β cells on sexual dysfunction of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic female rats. Female rats were administered STZ (60 mg/kg BW, i.v.) at the age of 1...
Yoshihiro Wakabayashi   Tomoaki Nakada   Ken Murata   Satoshi Ohkura   Kazutaka Mogi   Victor M. Navarro   Donald K. Clifton   Yuji Mori   Hiroko Tsukamura   Kei-Ichiro Maeda   Robert A. Steiner   Hiroaki Okamura   
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 30(8) 3124-3132 2010年2月 [査読有り]
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons in the basal forebrain are the final common pathway through which the brain regulates reproduction. GnRH secretion occurs in a pulsatile manner, and indirect evidence suggests the kisspeptin neurons in...
Misao Terada   Mark Oláh   György M. Nagy   Kazumi Taniguchi   Fumio Sato   Shiro Muranaka   Wirasak Fungfuang   Pudcharaporn Kromkhun   Tomoaki Nakada   Makoto Yokosuka   Toru R. Saito   
Reproductive Medicine and Biology 9(4) 205-209 2010年 [査読有り]
Purpose: The dopamine-derived endogenous compound, R-salsolinol (SAL), was recently identified as a putative endogenous prolactin (PRL)-releasing factor. However, how SAL influences copulatory behavior is unknown. In this study, we examined the re...