Up-regulation of α-inhibin expression in the fetal ovary of estrogen-suppressed baboons is associated with impaired fetal ovarian folliculogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1989-1996

  Billiar, Reinhart B ^a   Zachos, Nicholas C ^a   Burch, Marcia G ^a   Albrecht, Eugene D ^b   Pepe, Gerald J ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activin; Estradiol; Follicular development; Inhibin; Ovary

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; INHIBIN A; LETROZOLE; MYELOPID; WT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE DISRUPTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; FETUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; INHIBINS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PAPIO; PREGNANCY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037871657     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.011908     Document Type: Article

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