Changes in Normal Vaginal Flora of African Green Monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) during the Menstrual Cycle

Experimental Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-52

  Narushima, Seiko ^a   Itoh, Kikuji ^a   Sankai, Tadashi ^b   Takasaka, Masao ^b   Otani, Isao ^b   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African green monkey; Estrous cycle; Vaginal flora

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDACEAE; BLOOD; CERCOPITHECUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LACTOBACILLUS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDACEAE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LACTOBACILLUS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STREPTOCOCCUS; VAGINA;

EID: 0030640882     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.46.47     Document Type: Article

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