A two-step extraction method to measure fecal steroid hormones in female cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis)

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 291-298

  Matsumuro, Mie ^b   Sankai, Tadashi ^a   Cho, Fumiaki ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Yoshida, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Fecal steroid; Macaca fascicularis; Ovarian cycles; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ETHER; EXTRACTION; HEXANE; IMMUNOASSAY; MACACA; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STEROID HORMONE;

EXTRACTION METHOD; FECES; PRIMATE; STEROID;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ETHER, ETHYL; FECES; FEMALE; HEXANES; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROGESTERONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLVENTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033061506     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2345(1999)48:4<291::AID-AJP4>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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