Apoptosis in different stages of human oogenesis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5 A, 1998, Pages 3457-3461

  De Pol, A ^a,b   Marzona, L ^a   Vaccina, F ^a   Negro, R ^a   Sena, P ^a   Forabosco, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Sezione di Istol Embriol e Genet   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Germ cell; Human oogenesis; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY;

EID: 0031760513     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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