Ovarian steroidogenic responsiveness to exogenous gonadotropin stimulation in young and middle-aged female rats (44543)

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 224, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 285-291

  Chern, Bey Ying ^a   Chen, You Hsin Jean ^a   Hong, Long Sheng ^a   LaPolt, Philip S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARY; PENTOBARBITAL; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033887668     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1373.2000.22433.x     Document Type: Article

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