Different female reproductive phenotypes determined by human growth hormone (hGH) levels in hGH-transgenic rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 847-851

  Ikeda, Akihiro ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshiki ^b   Chang, Kyu Tae ^a   Nakano, Takahiro ^a   Matsuyama, Shigemi ^a   Yamanouchi, Keitaro ^a   Ohta, Akihiko ^c   Nishihara, Masugi ^a   Tojo, Hideaki ^a   Sasaki, Fumihiko ^b   Takahashi, Michio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; LUTEINIZATION; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RAT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE; MILK PROTEINS; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOPREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0030895216     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.4.847     Document Type: Article

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