Enhanced reproductive responses to melatonin in juvenile Siberian hamsters

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 271, Issue 4 40-4, 1996, Pages

  Prendergast, Brian J ^a   Kelly, Kimberly K ^b   Zucker, Irving ^b   Gorman, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

gonads; Phodopus sungorus; photoperiodic history; pineal gland; puberty

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONAD FUNCTION; HAMSTER; NONHUMAN; PINEAL GLAND FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0029999577     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.271.4.r1041     Document Type: Article

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