Sensitivity to exogenous gonadotropins for ovulation induction and laparoscopic artificial insemination in the cheetah and clouded leopard

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1059-1068

  Howard, J G ^a   Roth, T L ^b   Byers, A P ^b   Swanson, W F ^b   Wildt, D E ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHEETAH; DRUG EFFECT; FELIDAE; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACINONYX; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CARNIVORA; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; SEMEN; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0030985558     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.4.1059     Document Type: Article

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