Molecular aspects of mammalian ovulation

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-11

  Tsafriri, A ^a   Reich, R ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collagenase; Eicosanoids; Nitric oxide nitric oxide synthase (NO NOS); Ovulation; Plasminogen activator; Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; CYTOKINE; GONADOTROPIN; ICOSANOID; KININ; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYGEN RADICAL; PLASMIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; PROTEINASE; STEROID; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; VASCULOTROPIN;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; DEGRADATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONKEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; REVIEW; RUPTURE; SWINE;

EID: 0033002287     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1212066     Document Type: Review

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