Functional integrity of granulosa cells from polycystic ovaries

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 571-580

  Almahbobi, Ghanim ^a   Anderiesz, Cleola ^a   Hutchinson, Paul ^a   McFarlane, James R ^a   Wood, Carl ^a   Trounson, Alan O ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029949933     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1996.724545.x     Document Type: Article

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