Reproductive function in rats after mifepristone-induced termination of pregnancy

Contraception

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 185-190

  Telleria, Carlos M ^a,b   Deis, Ricardo P ^a  

^a Laboratorio de Reproduccion y Lactancia Mendoza   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

mifepristone; pregnancy; rat; RU486

Indexed keywords

ANTIGESTAGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030007449     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0010-7824(96)00009-1     Document Type: Article

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