Effects of spinal cord injury on the rat estrous cycle

Brain Research

Volumn 1100, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 118-124

  Hubscher, Charles H ^a   Armstrong, James E ^a   Johnson, Joy R ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Contusion; Estrous Cycle; Estrus; Proestrus; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; INNERVATION; METESTRUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL NERVE; THORACIC SPINE; VAGUS NERVE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CONTUSIONS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33745875336     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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