Progesterone improves the number and quality of hormone induced Fowler toad (Bufo fowleri) oocytes

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Browne, Robert K ^a,b   Li, Hong ^a,c   Seratt, Jessica ^a   Kouba, Andrew ^a,b  

^a MEMPHIS ZOO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c Shanghai Zoo   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; PIMOZIDE; PROGESTERONE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN; LHRH ETHYLAMIDE, DES GLY(10) ALA(6); LHRH ETHYLAMIDE, DES-GLY(10)-ALA(6)-; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; SPAWNING; TOAD; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO FOWLERI;

ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; CELL COUNT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; OOCYTES; PIMOZIDE; PROGESTERONE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 33144480104     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-4-3     Document Type: Article

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