Evaluating breeding soundness in stallions - 4: Hormonal assay and testicular biopsy

Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 358-XI

  Blanchard, Terry L ^a   Varner, Dickson D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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