Relationships between ultrasonographic image attributes, histomorphology and proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression of bovine antral follicles and corpora lutea ex situ

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-34

  Liu, X ^a   Hart, E J ^a   Petrik, J J ^a   Nykamp, S G ^a   Bartlewski, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 38149008327     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00848.x     Document Type: Article

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