Novel patterns of progesterone and prolactin in plasma during the estrous cycle in the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus campbelli) as determined by repeated sampling of individual females

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 819-825

  Reburn, Catharine J ^a   Wynne Edwards, Katherine E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; OVARIECTOMY; PHODOPUS; PREGNANCY; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0029986319     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.4.819     Document Type: Article

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