Pubertal acceleration of pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone release in male rats as revealed by microdialysis

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 163-171

  Harris, Glenn C ^a   Levine, Jon E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PULSE RATE; RAT; SAMPLING; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

AGING; ANIMALS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICRODIALYSIS; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERM COUNT; TESTOSTERONE; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0037227117     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-220767     Document Type: Article

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