Immunization of male rabbits with sheep luteal receptor to LH results in production of antibodies exhibiting hormone-agonistic and -antagonistic activities

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 431-443

  Jeyakumar, M ^a,b   Moudgal, N R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SHEEP;

EID: 0029777388     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1500431     Document Type: Article

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