Update on the role of ovarian corticotropin-releasing hormone

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1205, Issue , 2010, Pages 225-229

  Kiapekou, Erasmia ^a   Zapanti, Evangelia ^b   Mastorakos, George ^c   Loutradis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CRH; CRH R1; oocyte maturation; ovarian CRH

Indexed keywords

ANTALARMIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; STEROID;

ANOVULATION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CONFERENCE PAPER; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; STRESS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; TRENDS;

CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOGENESIS; OVARY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; STEROIDS;

EID: 77957050190     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05685.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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