Impact of social environment on female chimpanzee reproductive cycles

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 126-131

  Machatschke, Ivo H ^a   Wallner, Bernard ^a   Dittami, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Cortisol; Estrogen; Gonadotropins; Menstrual cycle; Progesterone; Prolactin; Social environment; Stress

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL STRUCTURE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS; SWELLING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROGESTERONE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33646837676     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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