Characterization of the growth center of the avian preovulatory follicle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 469-474

  Tischkau, Shelley A ^a   Neitzel, Leslie R ^a   Walsh, Jane A ^a   Bahr, Janice M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b 394 Animal Sciences Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKEN; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; GROWTH CONE; GROWTH RATE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031044038     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.2.469     Document Type: Article

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