Expression of avian urokinase and tissue-type plasminogen activator messenger ribonucleic acid during follicle development and atresia

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 581-588

  Johnson, A L ^a   Bridgham, J T ^a   Anthony, R V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; HEN; KRINGLE DOMAIN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; THECA CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHICKENS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GRANULOSA CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RNA, MESSENGER; THECA CELLS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031050504     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.3.581     Document Type: Article

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