Localization of specific relaxin-binding cells in the ovary and testis of pigs

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 401-408

  Min, Gyesik ^a   Sherwood, O D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELAXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MATURITY; SWINE; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; THECA CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; ESTRUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RELAXIN; SEXUAL MATURATION; SWINE; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031904577     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.2.401     Document Type: Article

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