Gonadal source of testosterone metabolites in urine of male cotton-top tamarin monkeys (Saguinus oedipus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 332-343

  Ziegler, T E ^a,b   Carlson, A A ^a   Ginther, A J ^a   Snowdon, C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton top tamarin; DHT; Estradiol; Estrone; GnRH antagonist; LH; Male; Nonhuman primate; Testosterone metabolism; Urine

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; ITURELIX; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD FUNCTION; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID URINE LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE;

EID: 0033915564     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7476     Document Type: Article

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