Right occipital cortex suppresses male rat testosterone secretion by a pituitary-independent mechanism

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 501-505

  Lepore, Gianluca ^a   Zedda, Marco ^a   Gerendai, Ida ^b   Csernus, Valér ^c   Gadau, Sergio ^a   Manca, Paolo ^a   Chisu, Valentina ^a   Farina, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Callosotomy; Laterality; LH; Right frontal and occipital cortex; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECORTICATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 33846014712     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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