Anti-apoptotic action of stem cell factor on oocytes in primordial follicles and its signal transduction

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 82-90

  Jin, Xuan ^a   Han, Chun Sheng ^a   Yu, Fu Qing ^a   Wei, Peng ^a   Hu, Zhao Yuan ^a   Liu, Yi Xun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Ovary; Signaling pathway

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN KINASE B; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EVALUATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABELING INDEX; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THECA CELL; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; OOCYTES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL FACTOR;

EID: 10044287396     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20142     Document Type: Article

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