Body reserves affect the reproductive endocrine responses to an acute change in nutrition in mature male sheep

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 257-269

  Zhang, Song ^a   Blache, Dominique ^a   Blackberry, Margaret A ^a   Martin, Graeme B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatness; Gonadotrophin; Insulin; Leptin; Ram

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; DIET; MALE; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SECRETION; SHEEP;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; DIET; HORMONES; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PERIODICITY; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 24144460574     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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