Leptin and its receptors in human fetal and adult ovaries

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1779-1782

  Abir, Ronit ^a,b   Ao, Asangla ^c,d   Jin, Shaoguang ^c   Barnett, Miriam ^a,b   Raanani, Hila ^a,b   Ben Haroush, Avi ^a,b   Fisch, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

EID: 28944434895     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.05.067     Document Type: Article

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