Production of plasminogen activators (PAs) in bovine cumulus-oocyte complexes during maturation in vitro: Effects of epidermal growth factor on production of PAs in oocytes and cumulus cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 298-304

  Park, Kwang Wook ^a   Choi, Sun Ho ^b,c   Song, Xue Xiong ^a   Funahashi, Hiroaki ^a,c   Niwa, Koji ^a,c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMILORIDE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; OOCYTES; OVARY; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0033025781     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod61.1.298     Document Type: Article

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