Effects of maternal undernutrition on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis function in female sheep offspring

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 677-684

  Kotsampasi, B ^a   Chadio, S ^a   Papadomichelakis, G ^a   Deligeorgis, S ^a   Kalogiannis, D ^a   Menegatos, I ^a   Zervas, G ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CORPUS LUTEUM; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALNUTRITION; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP;

AGING; ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALNUTRITION; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 67849108376     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.01046.x     Document Type: Article

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