Evidence for a luteinizing hormone surge center in the hypothalamus of the pig

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1199-1205

  Kraeling, Robert R ^a,c   Johnson, Bennett ^a   Barb, C Richard ^a   Rampacek, George B ^b  

^a RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031977213     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.5.1199     Document Type: Article

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