The Effects of Finasteride (Proscar) on Hair Growth, Hair Cycle Stage, and Serum Testosterone and Dihydrotestosterone in Adult Male and Female Stumptail Macaques (Macaca Arctoides)

October 1994 in “ The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism ”

Lesley E. Rhodes

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