Methods for quantifying follicular numbers within the mouse ovary

Reproduction

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 569-580

  Myers, M ^a   Britt, K L ^a,b   Wreford, N G M ^a   Ebling, F J P ^c   Kerr, Jeff B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OPTICS; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 2942542957     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00095     Document Type: Article

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