Apoptosis in atretic ovarian follicles is associated with selective decreases in messenger ribonucleic acid transcripts for gonadotropin receptors and cytochrome p450 aromatase

Endocrinology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 1670-1676

  Tilly, Jonathan L ^a   Kowalski, Kim I ^a   Schomberg, David W ^b   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BETA ACTIN; CYTOCHROME P450; DNA FRAGMENT; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLEEDING; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE RESPONSE; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; THECA CELL;

ACTINS; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; AROMATASE; DNA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; FOLLICULAR FLUID; NUCLEOSOMES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RECEPTORS, GONADOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0026779106     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.131.4.1396312     Document Type: Article

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