A New Model of Development of the Mammalian Ovary and Follicles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Hummitzsch, Katja ^a   Irving Rodgers, Helen F ^a,b,g   Hatzirodos, Nicholas ^a   Bonner, Wendy ^a   Sabatier, Laetitia ^c   Reinhardt, Dieter P ^c   Sado, Yoshikazu ^d   Ninomiya, Yoshifumi ^e   Wilhelm, Dagmar ^f   Rodgers, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Shigei Medical Research Institute   (Japan)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BOS TAURUS; CELL EXPANSION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRACKING; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL RIDGE EPITHELIAL LIKE CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESONEPHROS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84873601677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055578     Document Type: Article

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