Relaxin in the marmoset monkey: Secretion pattern in the ovarian cycle and early pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 512-520

  Einspanier, Almuth ^a   Nubbemeyer, R ^a   Schlote, S ^b   Schumacher, M ^c   Ivell, R ^c   Fuhrmann, K ^a   Marten, A ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; RELAXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RELAXIN; SWINE;

EID: 0032767026     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.2.512     Document Type: Article

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