Excretion and binding of tritium-labelled oestradiol in mice (Mus musculus): Implications for the Bruce effect

Reproduction

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 255-263

  Guzzo, Adam C ^a   Berger, Robert G ^a   DeCatanzaro, Denys ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OSMOTIC PUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMALS; ELIMINATIVE BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; INSEMINATION; MALE; MICE; OVARIECTOMY; PERFUSION; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRITIUM; URINE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 75149125210     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0382     Document Type: Article

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