Reproductive failure in aged CBF1 male mice: Interrelationships between pituitary gonadotropic hormones, testicular function, and mating success

Endocrinology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1977, Pages 939-945

  Bronson, F H ^a   Desjardins, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RADIOISOTOPE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGE; AGING; IN VITRO STUDY; MATING; MOUSE; ORCHIECTOMY; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AGING; ANIMAL; CASTRATION; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; ORGAN WEIGHT; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0017673401     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-101-3-939     Document Type: Article

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