Chronically elevated luteinizing hormone depletes primordial follicles in the mouse ovary

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1233-1237

  Flaws, Jodi A ^a   Abbud, Rula ^b   Mann, Rachel J ^b   Nilson, John H ^b   Hirshfield, Anne N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENOPAUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030785545     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.1233     Document Type: Article

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