Signaling Role of Prokineticin 2 on the Estrous Cycle of Female Mice
Signaling Role of Prokineticin 2 on the Estrous Cycle of Female Mice The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Xiao, Ling, Chengkang Zhang, Xiaohan Li, Shiaoching Gong, Renming Hu, Ravikumar Balasubramanian, William F. Crowley W. Jr., Michael H. Hastings, and Qun-Yong Zhou. 2014. “Signaling Role of Prokineticin 2 on the Estrous Cycle of Female Mice.” PLoS ONE 9 (3): e90860. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090860. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090860. Published Version doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090860 Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12064464 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Signaling Role of Prokineticin 2 on the Estrous Cycle of Female Mice Ling Xiao1,2, Chengkang Zhang1, Xiaohan Li1, Shiaoching Gong3, Renming Hu4, Ravikumar Balasubramanian5, William F. Crowley W. Jr.5, Michael H. Hastings6, Qun-Yong Zhou1* 1 Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Endocrinology, Jinshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 3 GENSAT Project, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 5 Harvard Reproductive Endocrine Sciences Center & The Reproductive Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 6 Division of Neurobiology, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Abstract The possible signaling role of prokineticin 2 (PK2) and its receptor, prokineticin receptor 2 (PKR2), on female reproduction was investigated.
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