Effect of human chorionic gonadotropin on reproductive organ blood flow in cycling rats (43957)

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 94-99

  Hill, Jennifer B ^a   Jimenez, Agnes E ^a   Passmore, John C ^a   Rao, Ch V ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRUS; FEMALE; LIVER CIRCULATION; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030051223     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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