Renewed debate over postnatal oogenesis in the mammalian ovary

BioEssays

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 829-832

  Greenfeld, Chuck ^a   Flaws, Jodi A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Howard Hall 133B ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE FERTILITY; LONGEVITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROPHASE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OOGENESIS; OVARY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 4344605885     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20094     Document Type: Review

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