Hormonal Regulation of Apoptosis in Early Antral Follicles: Follicle-Stimulating Hormone as a Major Survival Factor

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1447-1456

  Chun, Sang Young ^a,b   Eisenhauer, Karen M ^a,c   Minami, Sawako ^a   Billig, Håkan ^a,d   Perlas, Emerald ^a   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Bank of America Giannini Foudation ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYCLIC AMP; DNA; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INHIBINS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029918632     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.4.8625923     Document Type: Article

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