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Erik Hrabovszky is a researcher affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary. Their scientific contributions focus on several intersecting fields within biomedical science, particularly involving reproductive biology and the neuroendocrine system.

The primary fields of study include Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. More detailed subfields encompass Reproductive Medicine, Molecular Biology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Social Psychology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The main research topics in their work address areas such as hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones, plant reproductive biology, regulation of appetite and obesity, ovarian function and disorders, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuropeptides and animal physiology, and neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Recent publications by Erik Hrabovszky include:

  • Estrogen differentially regulates transcriptional landscapes of preoptic and arcuate kisspeptin neuron populations, 2022, Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • NOS1 mutations cause hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with sensory and cognitive deficits that can be reversed in infantile mice, 2022, Science Translational Medicine
  • Characterization of Kisspeptin Neurons in the Human Rostral Hypothalamus, 2020, Neuroendocrinology
  • Transcriptome profiling of kisspeptin neurons from the mouse arcuate nucleus reveals new mechanisms in estrogenic control of fertility, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The cryptic gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuronal system of human basal ganglia, 2021, eLife

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hrabovszky include:

  • Katalin Skrapits
  • Szabolcs Takács
  • Balázs Göcz
  • Éva Rumpler
  • Miklós Sárvári

The researcher often publishes in prominent scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • iScience

Best Publications

  • Detection of Estrogen Receptor-β Messenger Ribonucleic Acid and 125I-Estrogen Binding Sites in Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Neurons of the Rat Brain

    Erik Hrabovszky;Paul J. Shughrue;István Merchenthaler;Tibor Hajszán

  • The kisspeptin system of the human hypothalamus: sexual dimorphism and relationship with gonadotropin-releasing hormone and neurokinin B neurons.

    E. Hrabovszky;P. Ciofi;B. Vida;M. C. Horvath

  • Estrogen receptor-β immunoreactivity in luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurons of the rat brain

    Erik Hrabovszky;Annamária Steinhauser;Klaudia Barabás;Paul J. Shughrue

  • The Amygdala as a Neurobiological Target for Ghrelin in Rats: Neuroanatomical, Electrophysiological and Behavioral Evidence

    Mayte Alvarez-Crespo;Karolina P. Skibicka;Imre Farkas;Csilla S. Molnár

  • Development of the neurons controlling fertility in humans: new insights from 3D imaging and transparent fetal brains.

    Filippo Casoni;Filippo Casoni;Samuel A. Malone;Samuel A. Malone;Morgane Belle;Federico Luzzati

  • Evidence for suprachiasmatic vasopressin neurones innervating kisspeptin neurones in the rostral periventricular area of the mouse brain: regulation by oestrogen.

    B. Vida;L. Deli;E. Hrabovszky;T. Kalamatianos

  • Distribution of type 1 cannabinoid receptor (CB1)‐immunoreactive axons in the mouse hypothalamus

    Gábor Wittmann;Levente Deli;Imre Kalló;Erik Hrabovszky

  • Estrogen receptor-beta in oxytocin and vasopressin neurons of the rat and human hypothalamus: Immunocytochemical and in situ hybridization studies

    Erik Hrabovszky;Imre Kalló;Imre Kalló;Annamária Steinhauser;István Merchenthaler

  • Retrograde Endocannabinoid Signaling Reduces GABAergic Synaptic Transmission to Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons

    Imre Farkas;Imre Kalló;Levente Deli;Barbara Vida

  • Oestrogen Receptor α and β Immunoreactive Cells in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus of Mice: Distribution, Sex Differences and Regulation by Gonadal Hormones

    B. Vida;E. Hrabovszky;T. Kalamatianos;C. W. Coen

  • Low Degree of Overlap Between Kisspeptin, Neurokinin B, and Dynorphin Immunoreactivities in the Infundibular Nucleus of Young Male Human Subjects Challenges the KNDy Neuron Concept

    Erik Hrabovszky;Máté T. Sipos;Csilla S. Molnár;Philippe Ciofi

  • Neuroanatomy of the human hypothalamic kisspeptin system.

    Erik Hrabovszky

  • Novel aspects of glutamatergic signalling in the neuroendocrine system.

    E. Hrabovszky;Zsolt Liposits;Zsolt Liposits

  • Co-localisation of kisspeptin with galanin or neurokinin B in afferents to mouse GnRH neurones.

    I. Kalló;I. Kalló;B. Vida;L. Deli;C. S. Molnár

  • Neurochemical characterization of hypothalamic neurons involved in attack behavior: glutamatergic dominance and co-expression of thyrotropin-releasing hormone in a subset of glutamatergic neurons.

    E. Hrabovszky;J. Halasz;W. Meelis;M. R. Kruk

  • Sexual dimorphism of kisspeptin and neurokinin B immunoreactive neurons in the infundibular nucleus of aged men and women

    Erik Hrabovszky;Csilla S. Molnar;Mate Sipos;Barbara Vida

  • Blockade of central nicotine acetylcholine receptor signaling attenuate ghrelin-induced food intake in rodents.

    Suzanne L. Dickson;Erik Hrabovszky;Caroline Hansson;Elisabeth Jerlhag

  • Estrogens regulate neuroinflammatory genes via estrogen receptors α and β in the frontal cortex of middle-aged female rats.

    Miklós Sárvári;Erik Hrabovszky;Imre Kalló;Imre Kalló;Norbert Solymosi

  • Distinct Glutamatergic and GABAergic Subsets of Hypothalamic Pro-opiomelanocortin Neurons Revealed by In Situ Hybridization in Male Rats and Mice

    Gábor Wittmann;Erik Hrabovszky;Ronald M. Lechan

  • Estradiol Down-Regulates RF-Amide-Related Peptide (RFRP) Expression in the Mouse Hypothalamus

    C. S. Molnár;I. Kalló;Z. Liposits;Erik Hrabovszky

  • Neuropeptide co-expression in hypothalamic kisspeptin neurons of laboratory animals and the human.

    Katalin Skrapits;Beáta Ã. Borsay;László Herczeg;Philippe Ciofi

Frequent Co-Authors

Zsolt Liposits
Zsolt Liposits Institute of Experimental Medicine
Csaba Fekete
Csaba Fekete Institute of Experimental Medicine
Clive W. Coen
Clive W. Coen King's College London
Vincent Prevot
Vincent Prevot University of Lille
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Istvan Merchenthaler
Istvan Merchenthaler University of Maryland, Baltimore
Suzanne L. Dickson
Suzanne L. Dickson University of Gothenburg
Hidechika Okada
Hidechika Okada Nagoya City University
Annamaria Colao
Annamaria Colao University of Naples Federico II

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