Fig. 1.
Effect of chronic ALC exposure on basal KiSS-1 gene expression in AVPV (A) and ARC (B) nuclei of prepubertal female rats as determined by real-time PCR. Note that ALC markedly reduced expression of the KiSS-1 gene in both nuclei compared with control animals. The respective bars illustrate the mean (±SEM) of an N of 12 per group. ***p<0.001 versus control.