Are steroids dispensable for meiotic resumption in mammals?

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 321-327

  Tsafriri, Alex ^a   Motola, Shmuel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; STEROL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTENES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS;

EID: 34948835205     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2007.08.005     Document Type: Review

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