The importance of follicle-stimulating hormone in the initiation of testicular growth in photostimulated djungarian hamsters

Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 1060-1066

  Milette, Jill J ^a   Schwartz, Neena B ^a   Turek, Fred W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; BREEDING; GROWTH; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SEASON; TESTIS;

ANIMAL; BODY FLUIDS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LIGHT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PERIODICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTIS;

EID: 0023878516     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-122-3-1060     Document Type: Article

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