Induction of estrus in grouped female mice (Mus domesticus) by synthetic analogues of preputial gland constituents

Chemical Senses

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-293

  Ma, Weidong ^a   Miao, Zhongshan ^a   Novotny, Milos V ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARNESENE; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033054902     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.3.289     Document Type: Article

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