Avian germinal disc region secretes factors that stimulate proliferation and inhibit progesterone production by granulosa cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 865-870

  Tischkau, Shelley A ^a   Bahr, Janice M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Animal Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; STEROID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKEN; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GERMINAL CENTER; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GRANULOSA CELLS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROGESTERONE; THYMIDINE;

EID: 0029968125     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.4.865     Document Type: Article

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