Gonadotropin induction of ovulation and corpus luteum formation in young estrogen receptor-α knockout mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 599-605

  Rosenfeld, Cheryl S ^a   Murray, Alison A ^b   Simmer, Gretchen ^a   Hufford, Martha G ^a   Smith, Michael F ^a   Spears, Norah ^b   Lubahn, Dennis B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYST; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; FALLOPIA;

EID: 0033994460     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod62.3.599     Document Type: Article

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