Male-induced estrus synchronization in the female Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus sungorus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 227-231

  Dodge, James C ^a,b   Kristal, Mark B ^a   Badura, Lori L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrous cyclicity; Estrus synchronization; Luteinizing hormone; Pheromones; Prolactin; Serial blood sampling; Siberian hamster; Whitten effect

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PHODOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0036853661     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(02)00851-X     Document Type: Article

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