Involvement of Fas antigen in ovarian follicular atresia and luteolysis

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-18

  Sakamaki, Kazuhiro ^a   Yoshida, Hisahiro ^a   Nishimura, Yoshiko ^b   Nishikawa, Shin Ichi ^a   Manabe, Noboru ^a   Yonehara, Shin ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JT Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

apoptosis; fas ligand; gld; lpr; ovary

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEOLYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CORPUS LUTEUM; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030951530     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199705)47:1<11::AID-MRD2>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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