Dihydrotestosterone influenced numbers of healthy follicles and follicular amounts of LH receptor mRNA during the follicular phase of the estrous cycle in gilts

Reproduction

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-350

  Cardenas H ^a   Jimenez E ^a   Pope, W F ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; CORN OIL; ESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GILT (SWINE); NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, LH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STAINING AND LABELING; SWINE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 40949163358     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0429     Document Type: Article

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