Potential role of activin A in follicular development during the second half of pregnancy in the golden hamster: Utero-placental source of activin A

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 247-253

  Ohshima, K ^a   Arai, K Y ^a   Kishi, H ^a   Itoh, M ^a   Watanabe, G ^a   Terranova, P F ^a   Arai, K ^a   Uehara, K ^a   Groome, N P ^a   Taya, K ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAMSTER; HYSTERECTOMY; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; UTERUS;

ACTIVINS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYSTERECTOMY; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; INHIBINS; MESOCRICETUS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARIECTOMY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; UTERUS;

EID: 18244367155     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1720247     Document Type: Article

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