Incorporation of a GnRH agonist, leuprolide acetate, into regimens with exogenous gonadotropins to produce ovarian stimulation and ovulation in the nonpregnant squirrel monkey

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-164

  Kuehl, Thomas J ^a,b   Davis, Thomas W ^a   Young, Clayton ^a   Nunez, Patty ^a   Robinson, Melissa R ^a   Huddleston, Kevin P ^a   Wincek, Thomas J ^a   Pliego, Jose F ^a   Dukelow, W Richard ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Leuprolide acetate; Ovulation; Squirrel monkey

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; OVARY; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEUPROLIDE; MENSTRUATION; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE; SAIMIRI;

EID: 0032809201     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2345(199910)49:2<153::AID-AJP6>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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