Regulation of the ovarian follicular vasculature

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fraser, Hamish M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; THROMBOSPONDIN 2; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OVARY BLOOD FLOW; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INHIBITION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANGIOGENESIS INDUCING AGENTS; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CALLITHRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 33646549338     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-4-18     Document Type: Review

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