Sustained but not repeated acute elevation of cortisol impaired the luteinizing hormone surge, estrus, and ovulation in gilts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 614-620

  Turner, A I ^a   Hemsworth, P H ^b   Canny, B J ^a   Tilbrook, A J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VIC INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INFERTILITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HYDROCORTISONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032779336     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.3.614     Document Type: Article

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