Uneven regional distributions of prolactin- and growth hormone-secreting cells and sexually dimorphic proportions of prolactin secretors in the adenohypophysis of adult chickens

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 246-254

  Lopez, Marisol E ^a   Hargis, Billy M ^b   Dean, Carlton E ^a   Porter, Tom E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0028789623     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1995.1154     Document Type: Article

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