Mating effects on female reproductive organs: The paradigm of estrogen signaling pathways in the oviduct

Human and Animal Mating: Strategies, Gender Differences and Environmental Influences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-30

  Orihuela, Pedro A ^a   Parada Bustamante, Alexis ^b   Cárdenas, Hugo ^a   Tapia Pizarro, Alejandro ^b   Oróstica, Lorena ^a   Reuquén, Patricia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Estradiol; Female reproductive organs; Mating; Reproductive strategy

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EID: 84895270174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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