Aromatization and antioxidant capacity in the testis of seasonally breeding bank voles: Effects of LH, PRL and IGF-I

Theriogenology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1376-1391

  Gancarczyk, Monika ^a   Kuklińska, Magdalena ^b   Sadowska, Jolanta ^a   Strzezek, Jerzy ^b   Bilińska, Barbara ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Aromatase; Bank voles; Photoperiod; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; AROMATASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SEASON; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AROMATASE; ARVICOLINAE; BREEDING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEYDIG CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; PROLACTIN; PROTEINS; SEASONS; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 33644904646     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2005.08.013     Document Type: Article

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