Messenger RNA expression for the follicle-stimulating hormone receptor and luteinizing hormone receptor in human oocytes and preimplantation-stage embryos

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1187-1193

  Patsoula, Eleni ^a,b   Loutradis, Dimitris ^a   Drakakis, Peter ^a   Michalas, Lina ^a   Bletsa, Ritsa ^a   Michalas, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

FSH and LH receptors; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Messenger RNA; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; METHODOLOGY; MORULA; NIDATION; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0037624612     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)00071-2     Document Type: Article

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