Analysis of atresia in bovine follicles using different methods: Flow cytometry, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and classic histology

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 631-637

  Blondin, Patrick ^a   Dufour, Maurice ^b   Sirard, Marc André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FOLLITROPIN; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOSA CELL; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPEROVULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SUPEROVULATION;

EID: 0030070928     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.3.631     Document Type: Article

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