Recombinant human growth hormone acts on intermediate-sized follicles and rescues growing follicles from atresia

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-92

  Ozawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Mizunuma, Hideki ^a   Ozawa, Hitoshi ^b   Ibuki, Yoshito ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU); GH; Ovary; Spontaneous dwarf rat

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; RAT;

EID: 0029870492     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.43.87     Document Type: Article

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