Fertility impairment after mifepristone treatment to rats at proestrus: Actions on the hypothalamic-hypophyseal-Ovarian axis

Contraception

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 267-274

  Telleria, C M ^a,b   Mezzadri, M R ^a   Deis, R P ^a  

^a Laboratorio de Reproduccion y Lactancia Mendoza   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

LH; Mifepristone; Ovulation; Progesterone; Prolactin; Rat; RU486; Sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ANTIGESTAGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIFEPRISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AMERICAS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ARGENTINA; BIOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTION RESEARCH; CONTRACEPTIVE MODE OF ACTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FAMILY PLANNING; GONADOTROPINS; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HORMONES; IMPLANTATION SUPPRESSION; LATIN AMERICA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION; OVULATION SUPPRESSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PITUITARY HORMONES; PROLACTIN; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RU-486--ADMINISTRACTION AND DOSAGE; RU-486--PHARMACODYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030694138     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(97)00137-6     Document Type: Article

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