The effect of seizures and kindling on reproductive hormones in the rat

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 753-762

  Edwards, H E ^a   MacLusky, N J ^b   Burnham, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive shock; Fertility; Gonadal hormones; Kindling

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0033843078     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(00)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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