Relationship between serum sex hormone concentrations and histology of seminiferous tubules of captured baleen whales in the Western North Pacific during the feeding season

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 419-427

  Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Mogoe, Toshihiro ^b   Asada, Masatsugu ^a   Hayashi, Kengo ^a   Fujise, Yoshihiro ^b   Ishikawa, Hajime ^b   Ohsumi, Seiji ^b   Miyamoto, Akio ^a   Fukui, Yutaka ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b T   (Japan)

Author keywords

FSH; LH; Steroid hormone; Testis; Whale

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEEDING; GONAD FUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMATURITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; WHALE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALIA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; CETACEA; MYSTICETI;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PACIFIC OCEAN; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; TESTOSTERONE; WHALES;

EID: 16644395236     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.50.419     Document Type: Article

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