PHOTOPERIODIC REGULATION OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM IN THE SYRIAN HAMSTER (OVARY, PINEAL, HORMONES, PITUITARY).
Female golden Syrian hamsters are seasonally breeding animals, capable of maintaining continuous estrous cycles when the daylength is 12.5 hrs. or longer. In shorter photoperiod (SP) the ovaries of anovulatory animals are characterized by few small growing follicles, an absence of corpora lutea and...
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The University of Arizona.
1986
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183862 |