Timing of activation of primordial follicles in mature rats is only slightly affected by fetal stage at meiotic arrest

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-67

  Meredith, S ^a   Doolin, D ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; DNA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030966644     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.63     Document Type: Article

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