Photoperiod control of the melatonin rhythm and reproductive maturation in the juvenile Djungarian hamster: 60-Hz magnetic field exposure effects

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 455-460

  Truong, Huy ^a   Smith, Jason C ^a   Yellon, Steven M ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 0029741190     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.2.455     Document Type: Article

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