Influences of age and reproductive status on ovarian ovulatory responsiveness to gonadotropin stimulation

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 217, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 455-460

  Anzalone, Christopher R ^a   Lu, John K H ^a,b   LaPolt, Philip S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FERTILITY; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; MATERNAL AGE; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; RAT; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031920379     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-217-44257     Document Type: Article

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