Hormone secretion in the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus): Characterization of ovulatory and anovulatory luteinizing hormone surges

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1294-1299

  Brown, J L ^a   Schmitt, D L ^b,c   Bellem, A ^a   Graham, L H ^a   Lehnhardt, J ^a,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Dickerson Park Zoo   (United States)

^c MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DISNEY S ANIMAL KINGDOM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; IODINE 125; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; ELEPHANT; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIODINATION;

ANIMALS; ELEPHANTS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0032748563     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.5.1294     Document Type: Article

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