Metabolism of reproductive steroids during the ovarian cycle in two species of callitrichids, Saguinus oedipus and Callithrix jacchus, and estimation of the ovulatory period from fecal steroids

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-99

  Ziegler, Toni E ^a,b   Scheffler, Guenther ^a   Wittwer, Daniel J ^a   Schultz Darken, Nancy ^a   Snowdon, Charles T ^b   Abbott, David H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CALLITRICHIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MARMOSETS; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; ANIMALIA;

ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREGNANEDIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL; CALLITHRIX; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FECES; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION DETECTION; PREGNANEDIOL; PROGESTERONE; SAGUINUS; STEROIDS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029655906     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.1.91     Document Type: Article

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