Follistatin regulates germ cell nest breakdown and primordial follicle formation

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 697-706

  Kimura, Fuminori ^a   Bonomi, Lara M ^a   Schneyer, Alan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLISTATIN; ISOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; GERM CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLISTATIN; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

EID: 79951611949     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0950     Document Type: Article

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