Co-culturing of follicles with interstitial cells in collagen gel reproduce follicular development accompanied with theca cell layer formation

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Itami, Saori ^a   Yasuda, Keiko ^a   Yoshida, Yuka ^a   Matsui, Chiyuki ^a   Hashiura, Sachie ^a   Sakai, Atsushi ^a   Tamotsu, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN GEL; FOLLITROPIN; COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; TENASCIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; THECA CELL; ANIMAL; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GEL; GRANULOSA CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; REPRODUCIBILITY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GELS; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TENASCIN; THECA CELLS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 83455186203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-159     Document Type: Article

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