Domestic Animal Endocrinology
Volume 39, Issue 1 , Pages 21-25 , July 2010

Characteristics of prolactin-releasing response to salsolinol in vivo in cattle

  • T. Hashizume

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan. Tel.: +81 19 621 6161; fax: +81 19 621 6161.
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  • T. Sawada

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
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  • T. Yaegashi

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
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  • H. Saito

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
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  • A. Ezzat Ahmed

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
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  • Y. Goto

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
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  • Y. Nakajima

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
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  • J. Jin

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan
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  • E. Kasuya

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Animal Neurophysiology, National Institute of Agrobiological Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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  • G.M. Nagy

      Affiliations

    • Neuromorphological and Neuroedocrine Research Laboratory, Department of Human Morphology, Hungarian Academy of Science and Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Received 18 October 2009 ,Revised 30 December 2009 ,Accepted 14 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2010.01.002

Domestic Animal Endocrinology
Volume 39, Issue 1 , Pages 21-25 , July 2010

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