Excretory fate of estradiol and progesterone in the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and patterns of fecal steroid concentrations throughout the estrous cycle

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 255-262

  Wasser, S K ^a,b   Papageorge, S ^c   Foley, C ^d   Brown, J L ^e  

^a Center for Wildlife Conservation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELEPHANT; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FECES COMPOSITION; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

EID: 0029986935     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0067     Document Type: Article

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