Effects of somatostatins on gonadotrophic cells in female rats

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 329-335

  Lovren, Mirjana ^a   Sekulić, Milka ^a   Milošević, Verica ^a   Radulović, Nataša ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Gonadotrophic cells; Immunohistochemistry; Somatostatin; SRIF 14; SRIF 28; Stereology

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PEROXIDASE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031870440     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-1281(98)80020-2     Document Type: Article

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