Accelerated germ cell apoptosis in sex chromosome aneuploid fetal human gonads

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 219-225

  Modi, D N ^a   Sane, S ^b   Bhartiya, D ^a  

^a B J WADIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (India)

^b KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

45X; Apoptosis; Germ cells; Human fetal ovaries; Human fetal testis; Turner's syndrome; XO; XY

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; NICK END LABELING; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SERTOLI CELL; SEX CHROMOSOME; TESTIS; TURNER SYNDROME;

ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; OVARY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; TESTIS;

EID: 0347627889     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gag031     Document Type: Article

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