Changes in ovarian follicular kinetics in intact blinded and parietal shielded frogs exposed to different spectra of light

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 310-314

  Joshi, B N ^a   Udaykumar, K ^a  

^a GULBARGA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; GRAVIMETRY; KINETICS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVIDUCT; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 0032032318     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.7034     Document Type: Article

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