In the male Brown-Norway (BN) male rat, reproductive aging is associated with decreased LH-pulse amplitude and area

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 359-365

  Bonavera, Juan J ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a   Leung, Andrew ^a   Lue, Yan H ^a   Baravarian, Sima ^a   Superlano, Laura ^a   Sinha Hikim, Amiya P ^a   Wang, Christina ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

FSH; Pulsatile secretion; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0030727139     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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