Effects of nitric oxide-related agents on opioid regulation of rat testicular steroidogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1128-1134

  Adams, Michael L ^a   Meyer, Edward R ^a   Cicero, Theodore J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MORPHINE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NALTREXONE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HORMONAL REGULATION; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MALE; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0029867279     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.5.1128     Document Type: Article

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