Semen traits and metabolic and gonadotropic hormone profiles in ram lambs treated with glucose

Theriogenology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 625-639

  Carpenter, D B ^a   Hallford, D M ^a   Hung, Li Sang ^a   Hawkins, D E ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucose; Insulin; Nutrition; Reproduction; Sheep

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GONADORELIN; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HORMONAL REGULATION; INSULIN RELEASE; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031418511     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(97)00279-3     Document Type: Article

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