Follicle stimulating hormone is required for ovarian follicle maturation but not male fertility

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-204

  Kumar, T Rajendra ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Lu, Naifang ^a   Matzuk, Martin M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS SIZE;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS, EQUINE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPEROVULATION; TESTIS;

EID: 0031054284     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-201     Document Type: Article

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