Publications

Sáenz de Miera C, Bellefontaine N, Allen SJ, Myers Jr. MG, Elias CF. Glutamate neurotransmission from leptin receptor cells is required for typical puberty and reproductive function in female mice. eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.93204.1. 2024. (Pubmed)

Anderson  GM, Hill JW, Kaiser UB, Navarro VM, Ong KK, Perry JRB Prevot V, Tena-Sempere M, Elias CF. Metabolic control of puberty: 60 years in the footsteps of Kennedy and Mitra's seminal work. Nat Rev Endocrinol. doi: 10.1038/s41574-023-00919-z. 2023. (Pubmed)

Sáenz de Miera C,  Feng J, Elias CF, Qi N. Remote Neuronal Activation Coupled with Automated Blood Sampling to Induce and Measure Circulating Luteinizing Hormone in Mice. J. Vis Exp. doi: 10.3791/65875. 2023.  (Pubmed)

Beekly  BG, Rupp A, Burgess CR, Elias CF. Fast neurotransmitter identity of MCH neurons: Do contents depend on context? Front. Neuroendocrinol. doi: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2023.101069. 2023. (Pubmed)

Cara AL, Burger LL, Beekly BG, Allen SJ, Henson El, Auchus RJ, Myers, Jr. MG, Moenter SM, Elias CF. Deletion of Androgen Receptor in LepRb Cells Improves Estrous Cycles in Prenatally Androgenized Mice. Endocrinology. doi:10.1210/endocr/bqad015. 2023. (Pubmed)

Cisneros Larios B, Elias CF. Sex differences in the coexpression of prokineticin receptor 2 and gonadal steroids receptors in mice. Front. Neuroanat. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2022.1057727. 2022. (Pubmed)

Garcia-Galiano D, Cara AL, Tata Z, Allen SJ, Myers Jr. MG, Schipani E and Elias CF. ERα signaling in GHRH/Kiss1 dual phenotype neurons plays sex-specific roles in growth and puberty. J Neurosci. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2069-20. 2020.  (Pubmed)

Cara AL, Henson EL, Beekly BG, Elias CF. Distribution of androgen receptor mRNA in the prepubertal male and female mouse brain. J Neuroendocrinol. doi: 10.1111/jne.13063. 2021. (Pubmed)

Han X, Burger LL, Garcia-Galiano D, Sim S, Allen SJ, Olson DP, Myers, Jr. MG and Elias  CF. Hypothalamic and Cell-Specific Transcriptomes Unravel a Dynamic Neuropil Remodeling in Leptin-Induced and Typical Pubertal Transition in Female Mice. iScience. 23(10): 101563. 2020.  (Pubmed)

Beekly BG, Frankel WC, Berg T, Allen SJ, Garcia-Galiano D, Vanini G, and Elias CF. Dissociated Pmch and Cre Expression in Lactating Pmch-Cre BAC Transgenic Mice.  Front. Neuroanat. 14 Art:60. 2020. (Pubmed)

Cara AL, Myers MG, Elias CF. Lack of AR in LepRb Cells Disrupts Ambulatory Activity and Neuroendocrine Axes in a Sex-Specific Manner in Mice. Endocrinology 161(8). doi:10.1210/endocr/bqaa110. 2020. (Pubmed) 

Hill JW, Elias CF. Neuroanatomical Framework of the Metabolic Control of Reproduction. Physiol Rev, 98(4):2349-2380. 2018. (Pubmed)

Garcia-Galiano D, Borges BC, Donato JJr, Allen SJ, Bellefontaine N, Wang M, Zhao JJ, Kozloff KM, Hill JW, Elias CF. PI3Kα inactivation in leptin receptor cells increases leptin sensitivity but disrupts growth and reproduction. JCI Insight, Dec 7; 2 (23). pii: 96728. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.96728. [Epub ahead of print]. 2017. PMID: 29212950. (Pubmed)

Borges BC, Garcia-Galiano D,  Silveira Cruz-Machado S, Han X, Gavrilina GB, Saunders TL, Auchus RJ, Hammoud S, Smith GD, Elias CF. Obesity-induced infertility in male mice is associated with disruption of Crisp4 expression and sperm fertilization capacity. Endocrinology 158, 2930-2943. 2017. (Pubmed)

Mohsen Z, Sim H, Garcia-Galiano D, Han X, Bellefontaine N, Saunders TL, Elias CF. Sexually dimorphic distribution of Prokr2 neurons revealed by the Prokr2-Cre mouse model. Brain Struct Funct 222, 4111-4129. 2017. (Pubmed)

Frazão R, Cravo RM, Donato J Jr, Ratra D, Clegg D, Elmquist JK, Zigman JM, Williams KW, Elias CF. Shift in Kiss1 cell activity requires estrogen receptor α. J Neurosci 33, 2807-20. 2013. (Pubmed)

Cravo RM, Margatho LO, Osborne-Lawrence S, Donato J Jr, Atkin S, Bookout AL, Rovinsky S, Frazão R, Lee CE, Gautron L, Zigman JM, Elias CF. Characterization of Kiss1 neurons using transgenic mouse models. Neuroscience 173:37-56. 2011. (Pubmed)

Donato J Jr, Cravo RM, Frazão R, Gautron L, Scott MM, Lachey J, Castro IA, Margatho LO, Lee S, Lee C, Richardson JA, Friedman J, Chua S Jr, Coppari R, Zigman JM, Elmquist JK, Elias CF. Leptin's effect on puberty in mice is relayed by the ventral premammillary nucleus and does not require signaling in Kiss1 neurons. J Clin Invest. 121: 355-368. 2011. (Pubmed)