Differential responses of post-natal rat ovarian cells to FSH and activin

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-32

  Drummond, A E ^a   Dyson, M ^a   Mercer, J E ^a,b   Findlay, J K ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activin; Follicle stimulating hormone; Gonadotropin; Inhibin; Neonatal ovary; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; METHYLXANTHINE DERIVATIVE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 0030606868     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(96)03867-1     Document Type: Article

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