Pituitary-Gonadal Interactions in Perinatal Rats:Relationships of plasma luteinizing hormone and testosterone concentrations, and pituitary levels of lh subunit mRNAs

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 42-49

  Pakarinen, Pirjo ^a   Proshlyakova, Evgeniya ^b   Huhlaniem, Ilpo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b KOL TSOV INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Development; Feedback; Fetus; Gonadotropins; Immunofluorometric assay; Luteinizing hormone; Messenger RNA; Pituitary; Rat; Testis

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC AGENT; ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMESYLATE; FLUTAMIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; METRONIDAZOLE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEYDIG CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CASTRATION; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MESYLATES; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0028247117     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000126718     Document Type: Article

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