Postnatal changes in testicular gonadotropin receptors, serum gonadotropin, and testosterone concentrations and functional development of the testes in bulls

Reproduction

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 403-411

  Bagu, E T ^a   Cook, S ^a   Gratton, C L ^a   Rawlings, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASTRATION; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, GONADOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, LH; SERTOLI CELLS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 33749517006     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00768     Document Type: Article

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