Circulating metabolic hormones during the peripubertal period and their association with testicular development in bulls

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 502-508

  Brito, L F C ^a,b   Barth, A D ^b   Rawlings, N C ^b   Wilde, R E ^c   Crews Jr , D H ^c   Mir, P S ^c   Kastelic, J P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SCROTUM; SECRETION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; SCROTUM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 34547830543     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00813.x     Document Type: Article

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