The involvement of the Toll-like receptor family in ovulation

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 223-228

  Liu, Zhilin ^a   Shimada, Masayuki ^b   Richards, Joanne S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cumulus cells; Cytokines; Immune; Ovary; Ovulation; Toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; LIGAND; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FERTILIZATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; OOCYTE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 48349137605     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-008-9219-0     Document Type: Article

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