The potential role of intraovarian factors on ovarian androgen production

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 900, Issue , 2000, Pages 184-192

  Chryssikopoulos, Athanassios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THECA CELL;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0034015152     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06229.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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