Norethisterone enanthate has neither a direct effect on the testis nor on the epididymis: A study in adult male cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis)

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 655-661

  Junaidi, Aris ^a,b   Luetjens, C Marc ^a   Wistuba, Joachim ^a   Kamischke, Axel ^a   Yeung, Ching Hei ^a   Simoni, Manuela ^a   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; NORETHISTERONE ENANTATE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG MECHANISM; EPIDIDYMIS; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, MALE; EPIDIDYMIS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NORETHINDRONE; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 17744364089     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.1.01878     Document Type: Article

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