Effects of the aromatase inhibitor Fadrozole on plasma sex steroid secretion and ovulation rate in female coho salmon, oncorhynchus kisutch, close to final maturation

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-229

  Afonso, Luis O B ^a,b   Iwama, George K ^b   Smith, Jack ^a   Donaldson, Edward M ^a  

^a Centre for Aquaculture and Environmental Research   (Canada)

^b Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

17,20BETA DIHYDROXYPREGN 4 EN 3 ONE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; FADROZOLE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 0032936076     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7198     Document Type: Article

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