Ovarian dynamics and their associations with peripheral concentrations of gonadotropins, ovarian steroids, and inhibin during the estrous cycle in goats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-63

  Medan, Mohamed S ^a   Watanabe, Gen ^b   Sasaki, Kazuaki ^c   Sharawy, Sayed ^a   Groome, Nigel P ^d   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^b  

^a Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^d OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum; Follicle stimulating hormone; Follicular development; Inhibin; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA DERIVATIVE; STEROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GOAT; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GOATS; INHIBINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PROGESTERONE;

CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 0038790111     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.013334     Document Type: Article

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