Ovarian follicle development in Booroola sheep exhibiting impaired bone morphogenetic protein signalling pathway

Reproduction

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 689-696

  Ruoss, Chantelle ^a   Tadros, Amanda ^a   O'Shea, Tim ^b   McFarlane, Jim ^b   Almahbobi, Ghanim ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 71049183591     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0190     Document Type: Article

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