A Cellular and Endocrine Characterization of the Original and Induced Corpus Luteum after Administration of a Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist or Human Chorionic Gonadotropin on Day Five of the Estrous Cycle

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1915-1929

  Schmitt, E J P ^a   Barros, C M ^b   Fields, P A ^c   Fields, M J ^a   Diaz, T ^a   Kluge, J M ^a   Thatcher, W W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus Luteum; Gonadotropins; hCG; Luteal Cells; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BUSERELIN; CATTLE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORGAN SIZE; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030207326     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1996.7481915x     Document Type: Article

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