Leptin attenuates follicular apoptosis and accelerates the onset of puberty in immature rats

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 179-191

  Almog, B ^a,b   Gold, R ^a,b   Tajima, K ^a,d   Dantes, A ^a   Salim, K ^e   Rubinstein, M ^a   Barkan, D ^a   Homburg, R ^b   Lessing, J B ^b   Nevo, N ^a   Gertler, A ^c   Amsterdam, A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^e SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Leptin; Ovulation; Puberty

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; RECOMBINANT LEPTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMATURITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT;

ADRENODOXIN; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0035950417     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(01)00543-3     Document Type: Article

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