Extrapituitary Actions of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1981, Pages 437-461

  Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a   Jones, Phillip B C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; HYPOTHALAMUS RELEASING FACTOR; LEUPRORELIN; PITUITARY HORMONE RELEASING HORMONES; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; DELAYED IMPLANTATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GRANULOSA CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LABOR; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METABOLISM; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TESTIS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANIMAL; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYCLIC AMP; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION, DELAYED; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GONADORELIN; GRANULOSA CELLS; HORMONES, SYNTHETIC; HUMAN; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LEUPROLIDE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PITUITARY HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; SEX MATURATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTIS;

EID: 0019618648     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: 0163769X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/edrv-2-4-437     Document Type: Article

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