Gene injections of vascular endothelial growth factor and growth differentiation factor-9 stimulate ovarian follicular development in immature female rats

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 1563-1570

  Shimizu, Takashi ^a   Iijima, Koji ^a   Ogawa, Yoshinori ^a   Miyazaki, Hitoshi ^b   Sasada, Hiroshi ^a   Sato, Eimei ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; follicle development; gene injection; Ovary; ovulation

Indexed keywords

GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE; HISTOLOGY; IMMATURITY; INJECTION; JAPAN; LABORATORY; MATING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; SUPEROVULATION; UNIVERSITY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DNA; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; INJECTIONS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROCIRCULATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SUPEROVULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 43549095704     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.043     Document Type: Article

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