Chronic levonorgestrel treatment in Macaca sylvanus: Effects on perineal swelling size and fecal sex steroid excretion

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 326-332

  Wallner, Bernard ^a   Möstl, Erich ^b   Dittami, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contraceptive; Gonadal steroids; Levonorgestrel; Macaques; Perineal swellin

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LEVONORGESTREL; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PERINEUM; STEROID EXCRETION;

EID: 34447291863     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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