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The effect of hormones on experimental moniliasis in mice

II. Gonadotropins

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Various gonadotropic hormones were inoculated into mice infected with systemic moniliasis. It was found that the course of the infection could be modified in a beneficial or deleterious manner depending on such conditions as the severity of the infection, sex of animal, doses used and their schedule of inoculation, route of inoculation and source of gonadotropin. The relationship between these data and their similarity to comparable effects ascribed to cortisone is presented and discussed.

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  1. George H. Scherr

    Present address: Department of Bacteriology, The University of Illinois, School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

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  1. Department of Microbiology, The Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska

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This paper is part of a study supported by Contract No. NONR 717(00) between the Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, and the Creighton University.

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Scherr, G.H. The effect of hormones on experimental moniliasis in mice. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 8, 73–82 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02053120

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