Follicular atresia and luteolysis. Evidence of a role for N-cadherin

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 900, Issue , 2000, Pages 46-55

  Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^a   Coukos, George ^a   Blaschuk, Orest ^b   Coutifaris, Christos ^a  

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

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEOLYSIS; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034113359     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06215.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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