Ovarian and extraovarian sources of immunoreactive inhibin in the chicken: Effects of dexamethasone

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 333-343

  Vanmontfort, D ^a   Room, G ^a   Bruggeman, V ^a   Rombauts, L ^a   Berghman, L R ^a   Verhoeven, G ^a   Decuypere, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; INHIBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HEN; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION;

EID: 0031106148     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.6834     Document Type: Article

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