Immunohistochemical localization of steroidogenic enzymes in human follicle following xenotransplantation of the human ovarian cortex into NOD-SCID mice

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-72

  Sato, Yumi ^a   Terada, Yukihiro ^a   Utsunomiya, Hiroki ^a   Koyanagi, Yoshio ^a   Ito, Mamoru ^c   Miyoshi, Ichiro ^b   Suzuki, Takashi ^a   Sasano, Hironobu ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Okamura, Kunihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ad4BP; NOD SCID mouse; Ovarian tissue; Steroidogenic enzymes; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AD4 BINDING PROTEIN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYTOCHROME P450; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE STRATUM GRANULOSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THECA CELL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; STEROIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0037401705     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10260     Document Type: Article

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