The ovarian reserve of primordial follicles and the dynamic reserve of antral growing follicles: What is the link?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Monniaux, Danielle ^a,b,c,d   Clément, Frédérique ^e   Dalbiès Tran, Rozenn ^a,b,c,d   Estienne, Anthony ^a,b,c,d   Fabre, Stéphane ^a,b,c,d   Mansanet, Camille ^a,b,c,d   Monget, Philippe ^a,b,c,d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^d Institut Francais du Cheval et de l'Equitation   (France)

^e INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Anti M llerian hormone; Follicular development; Ovary; Premature ovarian failure

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE 1; PROTEIN S6; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHRL1;

ANTRAL FOLLICLE COUNT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; LONGEVITY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MATURITY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; AGING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFERTILITY THERAPY; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84903754497     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.117077     Document Type: Short Survey

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