Effects of season of birth on the prepubertal pattern of gonadotropin secretion and age at puberty in beef heifers

Theriogenology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-79

  Honaramooz, A ^a   Chandolia, R K ^a,b   Beard, A P ^a   Rawlings, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

FSH; Heifer calves; LH; Puberty; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; COW; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREPUBERTY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PUBERTY; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECRETION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEASONS; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 0033167389     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00110-7     Document Type: Article

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