The hormonal control of birth behavior in the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-167

  Rose, Randy ^a,b   Fadem, Barbara H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034030759     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1999.1568     Document Type: Article

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