Growth differentiation factor-9 is expressed by the primate follicle throughout the periovulatory interval

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 725-732

  Duffy, Diane M ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Follicle; Granulosa cells; Growth factors; Ovulation; Ovum

Indexed keywords

GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVULATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHESUS MONKEY; RODENT; SAMPLING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MACACA MULATTA; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038299209     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.015891     Document Type: Article

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