Changes in endocrine profile and reproductive organs during puberty in the male marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus)

Reproduction

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 355-363

  Chandolia, Ramesh K ^a,b   Luetjens, Craig Marc ^a   Wistuba, Joachim ^a   Yeung, Ching Hei ^a   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a   Simoni, Manuela ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

^b CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EPIDIDYMIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS WEIGHT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; MARMOSETS;

EID: 33747675487     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.01186     Document Type: Article

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