The effect of pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone and estradiol administration on luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone concentrations in pituitary stalk-sectioned ovariectomized pony mares

Domestic Animal Endocrinology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 275-285

  Porter, M B ^a   Cleaver, B D ^a   Peltier, M ^a   Robinson, G ^a   Sharp, Dan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORSE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFUNDIBULUM; KINETICS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORSES; KINETICS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIECTOMY; PERIODICITY; PITUITARY GLAND;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0031240117     PISSN: 07397240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0739-7240(97)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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