Endocrine Abstracts

Coupling the release of pituitary hormones to the developmental stage of the oocyte is essential for female fertility. It is thought to require estrogen to have simultaneous positive and negative feedback effects on two spatially-distinct regions of the hypothalamus, the arcuate nucleus and ‘AVPV’ nucleus. However, the mechanistic basis for this differential effect is not known. Therefore, we mapped the genomic binding of the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) in bot...