Effect of nutrition during calfhood and peripubertal period on serum metabolic hormones, gonadotropins and testosterone concentrations, and on sexual development in bulls

Domestic Animal Endocrinology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-18

  Brito, Leonardo F C ^a   Barth, Albert D ^a   Rawlings, Norm C ^a   Wilde, Randal E ^b   Crews Jr , Denny H ^b   Mir, Priya S ^b   Kastelic, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bull; Metabolic hormones; Nutrition; Puberty; Testes

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCROTUM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCROTUM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 34249677929     PISSN: 07397240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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