Gonadotropin-releasing hormone in the ovary

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 737-749

  Metallinou, Chryssa ^a   Asimakopoulos, Byron ^a   Schröer, Andreas ^b   Nikolettos, Nikos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

GnRH analogues; GnRH receptor; Gonadotropin releasing hormones; Human ovary; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; SEX HORMONE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ISOPROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKEN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY CELL; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; OVARY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, LHRH;

EID: 39049108792     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719107310707     Document Type: Review

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