Dose and time relationships of intravenously injected rat recombinant luteinizing hormone and testicular testosterone secretion in the male rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 338-343

  Hakola, Kati ^a   Pierroz, Dominique D ^b   Aebi, Audrey ^b   Vuagnat, Beatrice A M ^b   Aubert, Michel L ^b   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RAT; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031904701     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.2.338     Document Type: Article

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