Establishment of oocyte population in the fetal ovary: Primordial germ cell proliferation and oocyte programmed cell death

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 182-191

  De Felici, Massimo ^a   Klinger, Francesca Gioia ^a   Farini, Donatella ^a   Scaldaferri, Maria Lucia ^a   Iona, Saveria ^a   Lobascio, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal ovary; Oocyte; Primordial germ cell profileration; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CELL LOSS; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE FERTILITY; LIFESPAN; MEIOSIS; MENOPAUSE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 13844250615     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60939-X     Document Type: Article

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