Seasonal and stress related changes in plasma gonadotropins, sex steroids, and corticosterone in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 124-145

  Licht, Paul ^a   McCreery, Brian R ^a   Barnes, Robert ^b   Pang, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Central Valley Biologicals ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; HISTOLOGY; KINETICS; MALE; OVARY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; STRESS; TESTIS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; KINETICS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OVARY; PROGESTERONE; RANA CATESBEIANA; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX HORMONES; STRESS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TESTIS;

EID: 0020744309     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(83)90249-6     Document Type: Article

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