Responsiveness of ovaries to exogenous gonadotrophins and laparoscopic artificial insemination with frozen-thawed spermatozoa in ocelots (Felis pardalis)

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-94

  Swanson, W F ^a   Howard, J G ^a   Roth, T L ^a   Brown, J L ^a   Alvarado, T ^b   Burton, M ^c   Starnes, D ^d   Wildt, D E ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Dallas Zoological Society   (United States)

^c Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society   (United States)

^d Caldwell Zoo   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FELIDAE; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; FELIDAE; FELIS; LEOPARDUS PARDALIS; OLIGACANTHORHYNCHUS;

EID: 0030063908     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1060087     Document Type: Article

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