The relationship between vaginal mucous impedance and serum concentrations of estradiol and progesterone throughout the sheep estrous cycle

Theriogenology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 813-827

  Bartlewski, P M ^a   Beard, A P ^a   Rawlings, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Estrous cycle; Progesterone; Sheep; Vaginal impedance

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMPEDANCE; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SECRETION; SHEEP; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VAGINA; VAGINA MUCOSA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MUCUS; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE; SHEEP; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0033103279     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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