Reduction of the developmental competence of sheep oocytes by inhibition of LH pulses during the follicular phase with a GnRH antagonist

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-77

  Oussaid, B ^a   Mariana, J C ^a   Poulin, N ^a   Fontaine, J ^a   Lonergan, P ^b   Beckers, J F ^c   Cognie, Y ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Universite de Liege   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FLUGESTONE ACETATE; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TEVERELIX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVIDUCT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; SHEEP; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032836998     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1170071     Document Type: Article

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