Neurobiology of Reproduction in the Female Rat: A Fifty-Year Perspective

by John W. Everett

It has been my privilege and pleasure during the past half century to participate in the unfolding of present-day concepts of the mammalian female reproductive cycles. When the studies recorded here began in the late 1930s it was already established that cyclic ovarian function is governed by gonadotropic secretions from the anterior pituitary gland, the "conductor of the endrocrine orchestra," and that in turn this activity is importantly dependent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642837999
• ISBN13: 9783642837999
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"