The regulation of follicle growth: Some clinical implications in reproductive endocrinology

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 235-247

  Taymor, M L ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

activin; clomiphene citrate; Follicle growth; FSH threshold; gonadotropins; human menopausal gonadotropin; inhibin; insulin like growth factors; ovarian steroids; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTROGEN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PREDNISONE; PROLACTIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; UROFOLLITROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030040936     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58077-7     Document Type: Article

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