Follistatin has a biphasic response but follicle-stimulating hormone is unchanged during an inflammatory episode in growing lambs

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-82

  Phillips, D J ^b,c   De Kretser, D M ^b   Pfeffer, A ^a   Ng Chie, W ^a   Moore, L G ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GROWTH REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; INFLAMMATION; LAMB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLISTATIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; YEAST, DRIED;

EID: 0031985830     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1560077     Document Type: Article

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