Aging in the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis

Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2729-2755

  Neal Perry, Genevieve ^a   Santoro, Nanette F ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012515400-0/50055-5     Document Type: Chapter

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