Ultrastructural features of goat oviductal secretory cells at follicular and luteal phases of the oestrous cycle

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 195, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 515-521

  Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Onodera, Masakazu ^b   Sugawara, Shichiro ^c   Satoh, Takeshi ^a   Hoshi, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a Res Inst for the Funct Peptides   (Japan)

^b Yamagata ken Agricultural Co op   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclic change; Fine structure; Reproduction; Secretion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CYTOPLASM; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXOCYTOSIS; FIMBRIA; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GOAT; LUTEAL PHASE; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY CELL; SECRETORY GRANULE;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; ESTRUS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GOATS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 0033436292     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021878299005609     Document Type: Article

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