Peripubertal Immune Challenges Attenuate Reproductive Development in Male Siberian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 813-820

  Prendergast, Brian J ^a,b   Hotchkiss, Andrew K ^a   Bilbo, Staci D ^a,c   Nelson, Randy J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Immunology; Neuroendocrinology; Puberty; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CRICETINAE; EATING; FEMALE; HEMOCYANIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 1242321240     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.023408     Document Type: Article

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