The effect of chronic testosterone administration on sturgeon gonadotropins in juvenile and pre-vitellogenic white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 218-227

  Pavlick Jr , Raymond J ^a   Moberg, Gary P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031080960     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.6823     Document Type: Article

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