Estrogen regulates gonadotropin-releasing hormone in the nervus terminalis of Xenopus laevis

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 301-308

  Wirsig Wiechmann, Celeste R ^a   Lee, Charlotte E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032797146     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7320     Document Type: Article

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