Relationships between the number of immunostaining gonadotropes and the plasma concentrations of gonadotrophins in ewes with and without the FecBB gene

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-78

  Heath, D A ^a   Caldani, M ^b   McNatty, K P ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENOTYPE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR GENE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FERTILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENOTYPE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; SHEEP;

EID: 0029665669     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1060073     Document Type: Article

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