Effects of luteectomy in early pregnancy on the maintenance of gestation and plasma progesterone concentrations in the viviparous temperate lizard Barisia imbricata imbricata

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Martínez Torres, Martín ^a   Hernández Caballero, Marta E ^a   Luis Díaz, Juana A ^a   Ortiz López, Guadalupe ^b   Cárdenas León, Mario ^c   Moreno Fierros, Leticia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c Laboratorio de Hormonas Proteicas   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; 5ALPHA PREGNANE 3,20 DIONE; ANDROSTENEDIOL; CORTICOSTERONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; ELTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; PLACEBO;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARISIA IMBRICATA; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; LIZARD; LUTEECTOMY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; OSMOLARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TIME; VIVIPARITY;

BARISIA IMBRICATA; BARISIA IMBRICATA IMBRICATA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; LIZARDS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLACEBOS; PROGESTERONE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN;

EID: 77950412947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-19     Document Type: Article

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