Lesions of the melatonin- and androgen-responsive tissue of the dorsomedial nucleus of the hypothalamus block the gonadal response of male Syrian hamsters to programmed infusions of melatonin

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 470-477

  Maywood, Elizabeth S ^a   Bittman, Eric L ^b   Hastings, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PINEALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRICETINAE; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MELATONIN; MESOCRICETUS; PHOTOPERIOD; PINEAL GLAND; PROLACTIN; TESTIS;

EID: 0030046048     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.2.470     Document Type: Article

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