Characterization of inhibin/activin subunit, activin receptor, and follistatin messenger ribonucleic acid in human and mouse oocytes: Evidence for activin's paracrine signaling from granulosa cells to oocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 807-812

  Sidis, Yisrael ^a   Fujiwara, Toshihiro ^a   Leykin, Lucy ^a   Isaacson, Keith ^a   Toth, Thomas ^a   Schneyer, Alan L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; FOLLISTATIN; INHIBIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; GRANULOSA CELLS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MICE; OOCYTES; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031692312     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.4.807     Document Type: Article

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