Acute effects of prostaglandin F2α on systemic oxytocin and progesterone concentrations during the mid- or late-luteal phase in mares

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 63-73

  Utt, M D ^a,b   Acosta, T J ^a   Wiltbank, M C ^a   Ginther, O J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EUTHERIA FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Mare; Oxytocin; Progesterone; Prostaglandin F2

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIC AGENT; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORSE; KINETICS; LUTEAL PHASE; RANDOMIZATION; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; DINOPROST; FEMALE; HORSES; KINETICS; LUTEAL PHASE; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33750731685     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2006.01.009     Document Type: Article

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