Effect of improved nutrition during calfhood on serum metabolic hormones, gonadotropins, and testosterone concentrations, and on testicular development in bulls

Domestic Animal Endocrinology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 460-469

  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

GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGING; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HORMONES; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 34547843808     PISSN: 07397240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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