Gonadotropin-releasing hormone-induced desensitization may account for the decrease in pituitary responsiveness after the preovulatory luteinizing hormone surge

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1057-1062

  Cassina, M Patricia ^a   Neill, Jimmy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT;

EID: 0030032749     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.3.8603574     Document Type: Article

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