An imbalance between apoptosis and proliferation contributes to follicular persistence in polycystic ovaries in rats

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Salvetti, Natalia R ^a   Panzani, Carolina G ^a   Gimeno, Eduardo J ^b   Neme, Leandro G ^a   Alfaro, Natalia S ^a   Ortega, Hugo H ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYCLINE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL W; PROTEIN BCL XL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANIMAL; OVARY FOLLICLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; CAPRA; OVIS; RATTUS; SUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KI-67 ANTIGEN; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 68049123603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-68     Document Type: Article

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