The proestrous prolactin surge is not the sole initiator of regressive changes in corpora lutea of normally cycling rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1208-1215

  Bowen, Jennifer M ^a,b   Keyes, P Landis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; LUTEOLYSIS; MACROPHAGE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

20-ALPHA-DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APOPTOSIS; BROMOCRIPTINE; CELL NUCLEUS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEOLYSIS; MACROPHAGES; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032741766     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.5.1208     Document Type: Article

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