Our Publications

2023 


Cho H-J, Gurbuz F, Stamou M, Kotan LD, Farmer SM, Can S, Tompkins MF, Mamadova J, Altincik SA, Gokce C, Catli G, Bugrul F, Bartlett K, Turan I, Balasubramanian R, Yuksel B, Seminara SB, Wray S, Topaloglu AK. POU6F2 mutation in humans with pubertal failure alters GnRH transcript expression. Frontiers in Endocrinology: Pediatric Endocrinology, 2023.

Shostak D, Constantin S, Flannery J, Wray S. Acetylcholine regulation of GnRH neuronal activity: A circuit in the medial septum, Frontiers in Endocrinology: Neuroendocrine Science, 2023.

Constantin S, Sokanovic S, Mochimaru Y, Smiljanic K, Sivcev S, Previde RM, Wray S, Balla T, Stojilkovic SS. Postnatal Development and Maintenance of Pituitary Gonadotrophs is Dependent on PI4-kinase A. Endocinology, 2023.

2020-2022 


Shan Y, Saadi H, Wray S. Heterogeneous Origin of Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone-1 Neurons in Mouse Embryos Detected by Islet-1/2 Expression. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 8:35, 2020.

Saglam A, Calof AC, Wray S. A Novel Factor in Olfactory Ensheathing Cell-Astrocyte Crosstalk: Anti-Inflammatory Protein α-Crystallin B. Glia, 69(4), 2020.

Constantin S, Reynolds, D. Oh, A, Pizano K, Wray S. Nitric oxide resets kisspeptin-excited GnRH neurons via PIP2 replenishment. PNAS, 118(1), 2021.

Shan, Y. Farmer, SM, Wray, S. Drebrin Regulates Cytoskeleton Dynamics in Migrating Neurons through Interaction with CXCR4. PNAS, 118(3), 2021.

Constantin S, Pizano K, Matson, K, Shan Y, Reynolds D, Wray S. An inhibitory circuit from brainstem to GnRH neurons in male mice: a new role for the RFRP receptor. Endocrinology, 162(5), 2021.

Dairaghi L, Constantin S, Oh A, Shostak D, Wray, S. The Dopamine D4 receptor regulates gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron excitability in male mice. eNeuro, 2022.

Welch B, Cho H-J, Ucakturk SA, Farmer, SM, Cetinkaya S, Abaci A, Akkus G, Simsek E, Kotan LD, Turan I, Yuksel B, Wray S, Topaloglu AK. PLXNB1 Mutations in the Etiology of Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism. J. of Neuroendocrinology, 2022.

Pre-2022 (selected)


Wray S, Grant P, Gainer H.  Evidence that cells expressing luteinizing hormone releasing hormone mRNA in the mouse are derived from progenitor cells in the olfactory placode.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 86: 8132-8136, 1989.

Kusano K, Fueshko S, Gainer H, Wray S. Electrical and synaptic properties of embryonic LHRH neurons in explant cultures, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 92: 3928-3922, 1995.

Moore JP, Wray S.  Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) biosynthesis and secretion in embryonic LHRH neurons, Endocrinology, 141: 4486-4495, 2000.

Kramer PK, Wray S.  Novel gene expressed in nasal regions influences outgrowth of olfactory axons and migration of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) neurons, Genes & Development, 14:1824-1834, 2000.

Temple JL, Laing E, Sunder A, Wray S. Direct Action of Estradiol on Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone-1 Neuronal Activity Via a Transcription–Dependent Mechanism, J. Neuroscience, 24: 6328-6333, 2004.

Constantin S, Caraty A, Wray S, Duittoz A. Development of GnRH-1 secretion in mouse nasal explants, Endocrinology, 150: 3221-7, 2009.

Forni PE, Taylor-Burds C, Melvin S, Williams T, Wray S. Neural Crest and Ectodermal Cells Intermix in the Nasal Placode to give rise to GnRH-1 Neurons, Sensory Neurons and Olfactory Ensheathing Cells, J. Neuroscience 31:6915-27, 2011.

Kotan LD*, Hutchins BI*, Ozkan Y, Demirel F, Stoner H, Cheng PJ, Esen I, Gurbuz F, Y. Bicakci K, Mengen E, Yuksel B, Wray S, Topaloglu AK. Mutations in FEZF1 Cause Kallmann Syndrome. American Journal of Human Genetics, 4;95(3):326-31, 2014.