Coital and estrogen signals: A contrast in the preovulatory neuroendocrine networks of rabbits and rhesus monkeys

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 310-319

  Spies, Harold G ^a,b   Pau, K Y Francis ^a   Yang, Shu Ping ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031057899     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.2.310     Document Type: Article

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