Cell-to-cell communication in the ovarian follicle: Developmental and hormonal regulation of the expression of connexin43

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 4, 1998, Pages 85-97

  Granot, Irit ^a   Dekel, Nava ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Connexin43; Folliculogenesis; Gap junctions; Luteinizing hormone; Rat

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CONNEXIN 43; CYCLIC AMP; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; SERIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MEIOSIS; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032450564     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.suppl_4.85     Document Type: Conference Paper

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