Landmarks in the Development of the Female Reproductive System

Birth Defects Research Part B - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-143

  Beckman, David A ^a   Feuston, Maureen ^b  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b Biostatistics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY; OVULATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; CHILD; DOG; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; OOCYTE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RAT; REPRODUCTION; TIME; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

HORMONE;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOGS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; OOCYTES; OVARY; RATS; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0141885479     PISSN: 15429733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrb.10016     Document Type: Review

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