Life-long moderate caloric restriction prolongs reproductive life span in rats without interrupting estrous cyclicity: Effects on the gonadotropin-releasing hormone/luteinizing hormone axis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-75

  McShane, Teresa M ^a   Wise, Phyllis M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LIFESPAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RAT;

AGING; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY INTAKE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GONADORELIN; LONGEVITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029655483     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.1.70     Document Type: Article

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