Characterization of the short day-induced decrease in median eminence tyrosine hydroxylase activity in the ewe: Temporal relationship to the changes in luteinizing hormone and prolactin secretion and short day-like effect of melatonin

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 499-506

  Viguié, Catherine ^a,c   Thibault, Jean ^b   Thiéry, Jean Claude ^a   Tillet, Yves ^a   Malpaux, Benoît ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^c Reproductive Sciences Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MELATONIN; PROLACTIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA ANALYSIS; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; SHEEP; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031014753     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.1.4865     Document Type: Article

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