Effects of nitric oxide synthase blockade on the acute response of the reproductive axis to ethanol in pubertal male rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 870-877

  Emanuele, Mary Ann ^a,b   LaPaglia, N ^a,b   Steiner, J ^a,b   Kirsteins, L ^a,b   Emanuele, N V ^a,b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Luteinizing Hormone; Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone; Nitric Oxide Synthase; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

7 NITROINDAZOLE; ALCOHOL; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; N(G) NITROARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033052526     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1999.tb04196.x     Document Type: Article

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