New insights into ovarian function

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

Volumn 198, Issue , 2010, Pages 3-27

  Richards, JoAnne S ^a   Pangas, Stephanie A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Follicle development; FOXO; Luteinization; MAPK; Oocytes; Ovary; Ovulation; SMADS; TGFbeta family; WNT4

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BETA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN 1; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; FACTOR IN THE GERMLINE ALPHA; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; INTERLEUKIN 6; K RAS PROTEIN; LIVER RECEPTOR HOMOLOG 1; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BAX; RAS PROTEIN; RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN 140; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXL2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT4 PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GRANULOSA CELL; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; LUTEINIZATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; LUTEINIZATION; MEIOSIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 77956934852     PISSN: 01712004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02062-9_1     Document Type: Review

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