Ovarian vascular endothelial growth factor and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor patterns in reproductive aging

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 1546-1556

  Yeh, John ^a   Kim, Beom Su ^a   Peresie, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; corpus luteum; ovary; VEGF; VEGF receptors

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; SERIC GONADOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INJECTION; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; REPRODUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 43549116349     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.032     Document Type: Article

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