An aminopeptidase inhibitor, bestatin, enhances gonadotrophin-stimulated ovulation in mice

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1952-1957

  Nakamura, Kimihiko ^a   Fujiwara, Hiroshi ^a   Nakayama, Takahiro ^a   Goto, Yasuo ^a   Tachibana, Toshiyuki ^a   Suginami, Hiroshi ^b   Ueda, Masamichi ^a   Maeda, Michiyuki ^a   Mori, Takahide ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aminopeptidase; Bestatin; Folliculogenesis

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; BESTATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GONADOTROPIN; SERIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0029845288     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019523     Document Type: Article

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