Spatio-temporal analysis of vascular endothelial growth factor expression and blood vessel remodelling in pig ovarian follicles during the periovulatory period

Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-119

  Martelli, A ^a   Berardinelli, P ^a   Russo, V ^a   Mauro, A ^a   Bernabo N ^a   Gioia, L ^a   Mattioli, M ^a   Barboni, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CELL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVULATION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SWINE; THECA CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KI-67 ANTIGEN; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; SWINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 33244497610     PISSN: 09525041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/jme.1.01921     Document Type: Article

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