The effects of FSH and activin A on follicle development in vitro

Reproduction

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-229

  Cossigny, Davina A ^a   Findlay, Jock K ^a   Drummond, Ann E ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; MYELOPID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA EXTRACTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, FSH; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84857552376     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0105     Document Type: Article

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