The cultured rodent follicle as a model for investigations of gonadotrophin surge-attenuating factor (GnSAF) production

Reproduction

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 679-688

  Fowler, Paul A ^b   Spears, Norah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN SURGE ATTENUATING FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 3042816486     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00141     Document Type: Article

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