Dynamics of messenger RNAs encoding inhibin/activin subunits and follistatin in the ovary during the rat estrous cycle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1119-1126

  Arai, Koji Y ^a   Ohshima, Ken Ichi ^a   Watanabe, Gen ^a   Arai, Katsuhiko ^a   Uehara, Kohkichi ^a   Taya, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Follistatin; Inhibin; Ovary; Ovulatory cycle

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; FOLLISTATIN; GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; METESTRUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RNA PROBE;

EID: 0036199042     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod66.4.1119     Document Type: Article

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