The effects of chronic administration of testosterone propionate with or without estradiol on the sexual behavior and plasma steroid levels of aged female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5928-5939

  Jones, Sherri Lee ^a   Ismail, Nafissa ^a,b   King, Leonora ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; OVARY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84870216470     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1578     Document Type: Article

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