Effect of embryonic 19-nortestosterone treatment and surgical bursectomy on plasma concentrations of reproductive hormones, on inhibin content in adrenals and gonads and on the histological appearance of the gonads in the young chicken

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 106-116

  Bruggeman, V ^a   Room, G ^a   Vanmontfort, D ^a   Verhoeven, G ^a   Decuypere, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

19 Nortestosterone; Adrenal; Bursectomy; Chicken; Gonad; Histology of gonads; Reproductive hormones

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; INHIBIN; NANDROLONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BURSECTOMY; CHICKEN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENDER; GONAD; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037382528     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(02)00576-2     Document Type: Article

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