Ovarian theca cells in follicular function

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 591-609

  Tajima, Kimihisa ^a   Orisaka, Makoto ^a   Mori, Takahide ^b   Kotsuji, Fumikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b Medical Academia for Reproductive Regeneration   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atresia; Folliculogenesis; Oogenesis; Steroidogenesis; Theca cell; Theca granulosa interaction

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTENEDIONE; AROMATASE; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 6; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; INHIBIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANDROGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; LUTEINIZATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; STROMA CELL; THECA CELL;

EID: 36448933509     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60392-6     Document Type: Article

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