Assessment of luteal rescue and desensitization of macaque corpus luteum brought about by human chorionic gonadotrophin and deglycosylated human chorionic gonadotrophin treatment

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 497-510

  Selvaraj, N ^a   Medhamurthy, R ^a   Ramachandra, S G ^a   Sairam, M R ^b   Moudgal, N R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

corpus luteum; downregulation; hCG dghCG; primate

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DEGLYCOCHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DESENSITIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0029842272     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02703214     Document Type: Article

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