Corpora lutea induced by gonadotrophin-releasing hormone treatment of anoestrous Welsh Mountain ewes: Reduced sensitivity to luteinizing hormone in vivo and to chorionic gonadotrophin in vitro

Reproduction

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-73

  Bramley, T A ^a   Stirling, D ^b   Menzies, G S ^a   Baird, D T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN; IODINE 125; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

ANESTRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BREEDING; CELL COUNT; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEAL PHASE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SHEEP; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANESTRUS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORPUS LUTEUM MAINTENANCE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; SEASONS; SHEEP;

EID: 11244317916     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00382     Document Type: Article

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