Role of GABA in the Mechanism of the Onset of Puberty in Non-Human Primates

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2005, Pages 113-129

  Terasawa, Ei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PUBERTY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRIMATES; PUBERTY;

EID: 33645243595     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7742(05)71005-9     Document Type: Review

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