Assessment of vascular endothelial growth factor expression and apoptosis in the ovarian graft: can exogenous gonadotropin promote angiogenesis after ovarian transplantation?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 1550-1558

  Yang, Hyunwon ^a   Lee, Hyang Heun ^a   Lee, Hoi Chang ^a   Ko, Duck Sung ^a   Kim, S Samuel ^a,b  

^a Eulji University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; apoptosis; gonadotropin; ovarian transplantation; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SERIC GONADOTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN 188;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 52949134839     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.08.086     Document Type: Article

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