A study of the relative roles of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone in the regulation of testicular inhibin secretion in the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta)

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1363-1373

  Majumdar, S S ^a,b   Winters, S J ^a   Plant, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS TESTIS SYSTEM; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0031004826     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.4.5058     Document Type: Article

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