Male pheromone stimulates ovarian follicular development and body growth in juvenile female opossums (Monodelphis domestica)

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Harder, John D ^a   Jackson, Leslie M ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE; WATER; ESTRADIOL; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY GROWTH; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GROWTH STIMULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; WEANING; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TERRITORIALITY; UTERUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; OPOSSUMS; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PHEROMONES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TERRITORIALITY; UTERUS;

EID: 4344589456     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-21     Document Type: Article

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