Increasing gonadotropin-releasing hormone release by perifused hypothalamus from early to late anestrus in the beagle bitch

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-4

  Tani, Hiroyuki ^a   Inaba, Toshio ^a   Tamada, Hiromichi ^a   Sawada, Tsutomu ^a   Mori, Junichi ^a   Torii, Ryuzo ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dog; Estrous cycle; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Hypothalamus; Luteinizing hormone; Perifusion

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029920375     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12471-X     Document Type: Article

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