Quantification of healthy and atretic germ cells and follicles in the developing and post-natal ovary of the South American plains vizcacha, Lagostomus maximus: Evidence of continuous rise of the germinal reserve

Reproduction

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 199-209

  Inserra, P I F ^a   Leopardo, N P ^a   Willis, M A ^a   Freysselinard, A L ^a   Vitullo, A D ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y ANTROPOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LAGOSTOMUS MAXIMUS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SOUTH AMERICA; STEREOLOGY; VISCACHA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BCL-2; GESTATIONAL AGE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVUM; PREGNANCY; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RODENTIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84893175906     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0455     Document Type: Article

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