Limbic seizures alter reproductive function in the female rat

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1370-1377

  Edwards, Heather E ^a,c   Burnham, W McIntyre ^d   Ng, M Mark ^d   Asa, Sylvia ^b   MacLusky, Neil J ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Department of Physiology ^*  (Canada)

^d HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Kindling model; Polyfollicular ovaries; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SUBFERTILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THECA CELL; VAGINA SMEAR;

EID: 0032859061     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb02007.x     Document Type: Article

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