N-cadherin-mediated human granulosa cell adhesion prevents apoptosis. A role in follicular atresia and luteolysis?

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1391-1406

  Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^a   Coukos, George ^a   Christofidou Solomidou, Melpo ^b   Gour, Barbara J ^c   Radice, Glenn L ^a   Blaschuk, Orest ^c   Coutifaris, Christos ^a,b  

^a Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYCLIC AMP; DNA FRAGMENT; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CORPUS LUTEUM; DOWN REGULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEOLYSIS; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032911094     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65393-X     Document Type: Article

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