Induction of apoptosis in equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG)-primed rat ovaries by anti-eCG antibody

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 420-427

  Boone, David L ^a   Carnegie, Jacqueline A ^c   Rippstein, Peter U ^b   Tsang, Benjamin K ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; APOPTOSIS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GRANULOSA CELLS; HORSES; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 0030796089     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.2.420     Document Type: Article

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