Neurotrophin 4 enhances in vitro follicular assembly in human fetal ovaries

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1267-1271

  Farhi, Jacob ^a   Fisch, Benjamin ^a   Garor, Roni ^a   Peled, Yoav ^a   Pinkas, Haim ^a   Abir, Ronit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

human fetal ovaries; Neurotrophin 4; p75 receptor; primordial follicular assembly

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 4; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FOLLICULAR ASSEMBLY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; ORGAN CULTURE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 82355167795     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.03.051     Document Type: Article

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