• effects of feeding status and
• presence of gonadal hormones
• ways of fine tuning in ATP production (NTPDase’s)
• lateralization of hypothalamic functions

recent publications in the topic:

Kiss DS., Zsarnovszky A., Horvath K., Gyorffy A., Bartha T., Hazai D., Sotonyi P., Somogyi V., Frenyo VL., Diano S.: Ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 3 in the ventral and lateral hypothalamic area of female rats: morphological characterization and functional implications,Repr. Biology and Endocr., 7. 31-42, 2009. (IF: 2.05)

 

Zsarnovszky A., Bartha T., Frenyo LV., Diano S.: NTPDases in the neuroendocrine hypothalamus: possible energy regulators of the positive gonadotrophin feedback, Repr. Biology and Endocr., 16. 7-63, 2009. (IF: 2.05)

 

Somogyi V., Gyorffy A., Scalise TJ., Kiss DS., Goszleth G., Bartha T., Frenyo VL., Zsarnovszky A.: Endocrine factors in the hypothalamic regulation of food-intake in females: a review of the physiological roles and interactions of ghrelin, leptin, thyroid hormones, estrogen and insulin, Nutr. Res. Reviews, 22. 1-23, 2011. (IF: 4.842)

Naftolin F., Garcia-Segura LM., Horvath TL, Zsarnovszky A., Demir N., Fadiel A., Leranth C., Vondracek-Klepper S., Lewis C., Chang A., Parducz A.: Estrogen-induced hypothalamic synaptic plasticity and pituitary sensitization in the control of the estrogen-induced gonadotrophin surge, Reprod Sci,. 14. 101-16, 2007. (IF: 2.064)