Characterization of the onset of menopause in the rhesus macaque

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 335-340

  Gilardi, Kirsten V K ^a   Shideler, Susan E ^a   Valverde, Celia R ^a   Roberts, Jeffrey A ^a   Lasley, Bill L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMENORRHEA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FUNCTION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ESTRONE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; LUTEAL PHASE; MACACA MULATTA; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANEDIOL;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 0030843167     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.2.335     Document Type: Article

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