Progesterone is an autocrine/paracrine regulator of human granulosa cell survival in vitro

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 900, Issue , 2000, Pages 16-25

  Makrigiannakis, A ^a,c   Coukos, G ^a   Christofidou Solomidou, M ^b   Montas, S ^a   Coutifaris, C ^a  

^a Ctr for Res on Repro and W H   (United States)

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

^c Institute Obstetrics/Gynecology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DNA; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA DEGRADATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NICK END LABELING;

EID: 0034062511     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06212.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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