Estrus cycle status defined by vaginal cytology does not correspond to fluctuations of circulating estrogens in female mice

Shock

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 145-153

  Weixelbaumer, Katrin M ^a   Drechsler, Susanne ^a   Wehrenpfennig, Paul ^a   Khadem, Anna ^a   Bahrami, Soheyl ^a   Tichy, Alexander ^b   Palme, Rupert ^c   Osuchowski, Marcin F ^a  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL TRAUMATOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Department of Biomedical Sciences Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Platform ^*  (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

animal disease models; Estrogens; feces; noninvasive impedance; vaginal cytology

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN RELEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FECES LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROESTRUS; SHOCK; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SMEAR;

AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ESTROGENS; ESTRUS; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84893394688     PISSN: 10732322     EISSN: 15400514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SHK.0000000000000070     Document Type: Article

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