The role of nitric oxide in reproduction (43950B)

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-15

  McCann, Samuel M ^a   Rettori, Valaria ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ALCOHOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

CONFERENCE PAPER; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; LORDOSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ETHANOL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030061166     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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