Chronic treatment of male tammar wallabies with deslorelin implants during pouch life: Effects on development, puberty, and reproduction in adulthood

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1054-1061

  Herbert, C A ^a   Eckery, D C ^b,d   Trigg, T E ^c   Cooper, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS   (Israel)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

FSH; GnRH agonist; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Male reproductive tract; Marsupial; Mechanisms of hormone action; Puberty; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

DESLORELIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; PLACEBO; SUPRELORIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS TESTIS SYSTEM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MARSUPIAL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MACROPODIDAE; MALE; PLACEBOS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME; TRIPTORELIN;

ANIMALIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA;

EID: 34249695948     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.059915     Document Type: Article

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