Follicular assembly: Mechanisms of action

Reproduction

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-149

  Pepling, Melissa E ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROGESTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UVOMORULIN;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL ADHESION; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DEATH; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84857543182     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0299     Document Type: Review

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