Reproductive suppression in subordinate female highveld mole-rats (Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae): No role for endogenous opioid peptides

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 897-902

  Toit, Lydia Du ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^a   Gutjahr, Gundula H ^a   Coen, Clive W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Luteinizing hormone; Naloxone; Subterranean rodent

Indexed keywords

ENDORPHIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NALOXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REPRODUCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 33646157971     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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