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Determination of Reproductive Competence by Confirming Pubertal Onset and Performing a Fertility Assay in Mice and Rats
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[Gonadotropic function of the hypophysis in girls with delayed puberty]

S A Levenets, E I Plekhova, S Kh Cherevatova

    Akusherstvo I Ginekologiia
    |April 1, 1990
    PubMed

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