Awakening the oocyte: Controlling primordial follicle development

Reproduction

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-11

  McLaughlin, Eileen A ^a,b   McIver, Skye C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CELL ACTIVITY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 65949085580     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0118     Document Type: Review

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