Changes in Electrical Impedance of Vaginal Mucus during the Menstrual Cycle in Cynomolgus Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis)

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 535-537

  Tsuchiya, Hideaki ^a   Ogonuki, Narumi ^a,b   Yoshida, Takashi ^a   Cho, Fumiaki ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^c   Ito, Masao ^d   Sankai, Tadashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMPEDANCE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MACACA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; VAGINA SECRETION;

ANIMALS; CERVIX MUCUS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE; VAGINA;

EID: 0031797275     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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