HCG binding to the testicular LH receptor is similar in fertile, subfertile, and infertile stallions

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 411-416

  Motton, Deborah D ^a   Roser, Janet F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Horses; Testis

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORSE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RECEPTORS, LH; SEMEN; TESTIS;

EID: 0030727880     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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