Demonstration of a non-steroidal, non-inhibin factor in the ovine corpus luteum of pregnancy that reduces pituitary responsiveness to GnRH-induced LH secretion in vitro

Reproduction

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-42

  Fowler, P A ^a   Groome, N P ^b   Al Gubory, K H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN SURGE ATTENUATING FACTOR; INHIBIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PH; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RAT; SHEEP; SUPEROVULATION; TISSUE HOMOGENATE;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; TRIXIS;

EID: 0038494920     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.0.1260035     Document Type: Article

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