Relationship between gonadotropin subunit messenger ribonucleic acid levels and plasma gonadotropin concentrations in intact and orchidectomized adult rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 828-832

  Winters, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029787430     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.4.828     Document Type: Article

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