Age-related changes in peripheral hormone concentrations and their relationships with testis size and number of Sertoli and germ cells in yearling beef bulls

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-190

  Moura, A A ^a,b   Erickson, B H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASTRATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031467839     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1110183     Document Type: Article

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