Cholesterol Side-Chain Cleavage Cytochrome P450 and 3β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Expression and the Concentrations of Steroid Hormones in the Follicular Fluids of Different Phenotypes of Healthy and Atretic Bovine Ovarian Follicles

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2022-2028

  Irving Rodgers, Helen F ^a   Krupa, Malgorzata ^a   Rodgers, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Follicle; Granulosa cells; Ovary; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CYTOCHROME P450; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CATTLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; FOLLICULAR FLUID; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROGESTERONE; REFERENCE VALUES; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0345601177     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.017442     Document Type: Article

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