Seasonal changes in the reproductive physiology of female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-293

  Du, Yonghong ^a   Fan, Tien Ying ^a   Tan, Yi ^b   Xiong, Zhengai ^a   Wang, Zhibiao ^a  

^a Institute of Ultrasound Engineering in Medicine   (China)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; FEMALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; UTERUS CAVITY;

ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ORGAN SIZE; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; UTERUS;

MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 77953202659     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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