Local production of the gonadotropic hormones in the rat ovary

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 282, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 32-38

  Schirman Hildesheim, Tamar D ^a   Gershon, Eran ^a   Litichever, Naomi ^a   Galiani, Dalia ^a   Ben Aroya, Nurit ^a   Dekel, Nava ^a   Koch, Yitzhak ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

GnRH; Gonadotropins; Ovary

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; SERIC GONADOTROPIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THECA CELL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; GONADOTROPINS, EQUINE; GRANULOSA CELLS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; OOCYTES; OVARY; OVULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; THECA CELLS;

EID: 39149087663     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2007.11.014     Document Type: Article

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