Keratinocyte growth factor acts as a mesenchymal factor that promotes ovarian primordial to primary follicle transition

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 967-973

  Kezele, Phillip ^a   Nilsson, Eric E ^a   Skinner, Michael K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Follicle; Granulosa cells; Oocyte development; Ovary; Theca cells

Indexed keywords

KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; THECA CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 7; GRANULOSA CELLS; INSULIN; MESODERM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELL FACTOR; THECA CELLS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 26444510075     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.043117     Document Type: Article

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