The steroid hormone environment during primordial follicle formation in perinatal mouse ovaries

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Dutta, Sudipta ^a   Mark Kappeler, Connie J ^b,c   Hoyer, Patricia B ^b   Pepling, Melissa E ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WIL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal oocyte development; Oocyte survival; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; 3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; OUTBRED STRAIN; STEM CELL;

MAMMALIA;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; APOPTOSIS; AROMATASE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OOGENESIS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PROGESTERONE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84929516566     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.119214     Document Type: Article

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