The self-priming effect of gonadotropin-releasing hormone on luteinizing hormone release: Observations using rat anterior pituitary fragments and dispersed cells continuously perifused in parallel

Endocrinology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1984, Pages 861-867

  Evans, William S ^a   Uskavitch, David R ^a   Kaiser, Donald L ^a   Hellmann, Pattie ^a   Borges, Joao L C ^a   Thorner, Michael O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DIESTRUS; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTRUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PROESTRUS; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; KINETICS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0021363787     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-114-3-861     Document Type: Article

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