Apoptosis in the antral follicles of swamp buffalo and cattle ovary: TUNEL and caspase-3 histochemistry

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-116

  Feranil, J B ^a   Isobe, N ^a   Nakao, T ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 3; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THECA CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BUFFALOES; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CATTLE; CELL DIVISION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THECA CELLS;

BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS; FRIESIA;

EID: 17444428626     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2005.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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