Expression of androgen receptors and steroidogenic enzymes in relation to follicular growth and atresia following ovulation in pigs

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 949-955

  Garrett, Wesley M ^a   Guthrie, H David ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; CELL ANTIGEN; CYTOCHROME P450; DNA; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEROIDOGENESIS; SWINE;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS; SWINE; THECA CELLS;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0029858374     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.5.949     Document Type: Article

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