Effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone pulse frequency modulation on the reproductive axis of photoinhibited male Siberian hamsters

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 813-819

  Meredith, John M ^a   Turek, Fred W ^b   Levine, Jon E ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HAMSTER; HORMONAL REGULATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INFUSION PUMPS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PHODOPUS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

EID: 0031691917     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.4.813     Document Type: Article

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