Chronic somatostatin treatment affects pituitary gonadotrophs, ovaries and onset of puberty in rats

Life Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1359-1373

  Nestorovic N ^a   Lovren, M ^a   Sekulic M ^a   Negic N ^a   Sosic Jurjevic B ^a   Filipovic B ^a   Milosevic V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Female rats; Folliculogenesis; Gonadotrophic cells; Ovary; Puberty; Somatostatin; Stereology

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PEROXIDASE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MITOSIS INDEX; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PUBERTY; RAT; STEREOLOGY; THECA CELL; VAGINA;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0347990384     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2003.07.042     Document Type: Article

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