Sexual differentiation of reproductive neuroendocrine function in sheep

Reviews of Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 130-140

  Wood, Ruth L ^a   Foster, Douglas L ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SENSORY NERVE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SHEEP;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031805785     PISSN: 13596004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ror.0.0030130     Document Type: Article

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