The inhibitory effect of HCG on counter current transfer of GnRH and the presence of LH/hCG receptors in the perihypophyseal cavernous sinus - Carotid rete vascular complex of ewes

Theriogenology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 899-910

  Skipor, J ^a   Bao, S ^b   Grzegorzewski, W ^a   Wasowska, B ^a   Rao, Ch V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid rete; Cavernous sinus; Counter current transfer; Ewes; GnRH; LH receptors

Indexed keywords

BIOGONADYL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; DEXTRAN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; GONADORELIN; IODINE 125; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAROTID ARTERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTERCURRENT FLOW; FEMALE; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SHEEP; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; OVARIECTOMY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, LH; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0033118311     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00037-0     Document Type: Article

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