Gonadotropins: Chemistry and biosynthesis

Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1581-1634

  Bousfield, George R ^a   Jia, Li ^a   Ward, Darrell N ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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