Gap junctions in the ovaries

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 947-957

  Grazul Bilska, Anna T ^a   Reynolds, Lawrence P ^a   Redmer, Dale A ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHANNEL GATING; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; OVARY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030817297     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.947     Document Type: Short Survey

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