The menstrual cycle: Basic biology

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1135, Issue , 2008, Pages 10-18

  Hawkins, Shannon M ^a,b   Matzuk, Martin M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology; Endometriosis; Folliculogenesis; Genetics; Menstrual cycle; Mouse models; Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI)

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; GONADORELIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PROGESTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; BIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EATING DISORDER; ENDOMETRIUM; EXERCISE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GALACTOSEMIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; POINT MUTATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; STRESS; X CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

EID: 45549093436     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1429.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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