Ovarian aging: Breaking up is hard to fix

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 172, 2013, Pages

  Johnson, Joshua ^a   Keefe, David L ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN;

AGING; CELL AGING; CELL LOSS; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OVARIAN RESERVE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; CELL AGING; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OVARY;

EID: 84874075497     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3005579     Document Type: Short Survey

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