Differential effects of indomethacin on the sheep ovary: Prostaglandin biosynthesis, intracellular calcium, apoptosis, and ovulation

Prostaglandins

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 497-506

  Murdoch, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; Indomethacin; ovulation; prostaglandins; sheep

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CELL DNA; INDOMETACIN; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; APOPTOSIS; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; CYTOSOL; DINOPROSTONE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GRANULOSA CELLS; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; OVARY; OVULATION; PROSTAGLANDINS; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030481792     PISSN: 00906980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-6980(96)00127-X     Document Type: Article

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