Pattern of change in melatonin duration determines testicular responses in Siberian hamsters, Phodopus sungorus

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 668-673

  Gorman, Michael R ^a,b   Zucker, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MELATONIN; ORGAN SIZE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 0031059439     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.3.668     Document Type: Article

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