Hormonally active nontransformed human ovarian cell culture from oophorectomy specimens: Methods of development and initial characterization

Hormone Research

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 238-247

  Seto Young, Donna ^a   Leonardi, Olga ^b   Park, Alice ^a   Holcomb, Kevin ^a   Salehi, Marzieh ^a   Chang, Peter ^a   Yih, Melissa ^c   Rosenwaks, Zev ^c   Poretsky, Leonid ^a,d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin; Insulin; Oophorectomy; Ovarian cell culture, human; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ADULT; ANDROSTENEDIONE; AROMATASE; CELLS, CULTURED; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 27744461148     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089349     Document Type: Article

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