Thyroid hormones act primarily within the brain to promote the seasonal inhibition of luteinizing hormone secretion in the ewe

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1111-1117

  Viguié, Catherine ^b   Battaglia, Deborah F ^a   Krasa, Holly B ^b   Thrun, Lori A ^a   Karsch, Fred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b 300 North Ingalls Building ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHEEP;

EID: 0032942907     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.3.6543     Document Type: Article

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