Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of oocyte loss

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 916-927

  Thomson, Travis C ^a   Fitzpatrick, Katherine E ^a   Johnson, Joshua ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atresia; Fertility; Follicle; Oocyte; Ovary

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SIROLIMUS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78649478948     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gaq066     Document Type: Review

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