Oocyte development and loss

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 393-398

  Gosden, Roger G ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

age; follicle; germ cell; oocyte; ovarian reserve

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTIBODY; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; CASPASE 2; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME P450; DNA; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; GROWTH FACTOR; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE 1; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RETINOIC ACID; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEROID HORMONE; THYMIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UNINDEXED DRUG; WINGED HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GONAD; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MEIOSIS; MENOPAUSE; MESONEPHROS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PACHYTENE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PREGNANCY; RADIATION INJURY; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; STROMA CELL; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME; AGING; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84885343605     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1356475     Document Type: Article

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