Genital tract development in peripubertal female CD® IGS rats

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 284-287

  Sawaki, Masakuni ^a   Yamasaki, Kanji ^a   Hoshuyama, Satsuki ^a   Shinoda, Kazutoshi ^a   Kato, Fumie ^a   Shiraishi, Keiji ^a  

^a CHEMICALS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; OVARY; PUBERTY; RAT; SEXUAL MATURATION; UTERUS; VAGINA;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MITOTIC INDEX; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOMETRIUM; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RATS; SEXUAL MATURATION; UTERUS; VAGINA;

EID: 0033945993     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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