The oocyte and its role in regulating ovulation rate: A new paradigm in reproductive biology

Reproduction

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 379-386

  McNatty, Ken P ^d   Moore, L G ^d   Hudson, N L ^d   Quirke, L D ^d   Lawrence, S B ^d   Reader, K ^d   Hanrahan, J P ^a   Smith, P ^d   Groome, N P ^b   Laitinen, M ^c   Ritvos, O ^c   Juengel, J L ^d  

^a TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; GROWTH FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULOSA CELL; GROWTH CURVE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERM CARE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVULATION INDUCTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SHEEP; TARGET CELL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MAMMALS; MUTATION; OOCYTES; OVULATION; SHEEP; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; LAMB; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 6344231861     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00280     Document Type: Review

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