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Plasma concentrations of immunoreactive relaxin activity and progesterone in the pregnant Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)

✍ Scribed by C.A. Niemuller; C. Gray; E. Cummings; R.M. Liptrap

Book ID
117531218
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
267 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4320

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