Wild fulvous fruit bats (Rousettus leschenaulti) exhibit human-like menstrual cycle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 358-364

  Zhang, Xiaoping ^a,b   Zhu, Cheng ^a   Lin, Haiyan ^a   Yang, Qing ^a,b   Ou, Qizhi ^a   Li, Yuchun ^c   Chen, Zhong ^c   Racey, Paul ^d   Zhang, Shuyi ^e   Wang, Hongmei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Fulvous fruit bat; Hormone; Menstrual cycle; Ovary

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ROUSETTUS LESCHENAULTI; THICKNESS; UTERUS GROWTH; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OVARY; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; UTERUS;

ROUSETTUS LESCHENAULTI;

EID: 34547491344     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.058958     Document Type: Article

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