Changes in plasma luteinizing hormone, testosterone and estradiol-17β levels and semen quality after injections of gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist and human chorionic gonadotropin in three dogs with oligozoospermia and two dogs with azoospermia

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 157-167

  Kawakami, Eiichi ^a   Hori, Tatsuya ^a   Tsutsui, Toshihiko ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Dog; GnRH analog; HCG; Oligozoospermia; Semen quality

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031148722     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4320(97)00001-8     Document Type: Article

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