Hyperexpression of epidermal growth factor receptors in granulosa cells from women with polycystic ovary syndrome

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 750-758

  Almahbobi, Ghanim ^a   Misajon, Aileen ^a   Hutchinson, Paul ^a   Lolatgis, Nicholas ^a   Trounson, Alan O ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Growth factors; Infertility; Ovary; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANOVULATION; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 0031753439     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00252-0     Document Type: Article

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