Reduction in testosterone concentration and its effect on the reproductive output of chronic malaria-infected male mice

Parasitology Research

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 475-481

  Barthelemy, Mathieu ^a   Gabrion, Claude ^a   Petit, Gilles ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EJACULATION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INJECTION; MALARIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI CHABAUDI; RODENTIA;

EID: 4544280689     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1160-2     Document Type: Article

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