Testosterone and free thyroxin blood in congenitally acallosal male BALB/cCF mice

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 459-462

  Mourão Jr , Carlos Alberto ^a,b   Schmidt, Sergio Luís ^c   Manhães, Alex Christian ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Mice; Testosterone; Thyroxin

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0345801008     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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