Meiosis-activating sterol promotes resumption of meiosis in mouse oocytes cultured in vitro in contrast to related oxysterols

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1297-1302

  Grøndahl, Christian ^a   Ottesen, Jan L ^a   Lessl, Monika ^b   Faarup, Peter ^a   Murray, Anthony ^a   Grønvald, Frederik C ^a   Hegele Hartung, Christa ^b   Ahnfelt Rønne, Ian ^a  

^a NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 22 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 25 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 26 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; 4,4 DIMETHYL 5ALPHA CHOLESTA 8,14,24 TRIEN 3BETA OL; BUCLADESINE; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; HYPOXANTHINE; ISOBUTYLMETHYLXANTHINE; STEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMINAL VESICLE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

1-METHYL-3-ISOBUTYLXANTHINE; ANIMALS; BUCLADESINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HYPOXANTHINE; LIGANDS; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; OOCYTES; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PLASMIDS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; STEROLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; FALLOPIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031977355     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.5.1297     Document Type: Article

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