Gonadotropins enhance caspase-3 and -7 activity and apoptosis in the theca-interstitial cells of rat preovulatory follicles in culture

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1943-1951

  Yacobi, Keren ^a   Wojtowicz, Anna ^b   Tsafriri, Alex ^a   Gross, Atan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROCASPASE 3; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LOSS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY PREOVULATORY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERUM; THECA CELL; THECA INTERSTITIAL CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CASPASES; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SHEEP; THECA CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1642464762     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1395     Document Type: Article

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