Involvement of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade during Oocyte Maturation and Fertilization in Mammals

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 535-547

  Fan, Heng Yu ^a,b   Sun, Qing Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b Univ of Texas SW Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Gamete biology; Kinases; Meiosis; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GONADOTROPIN; MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL CYCLE; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GERMINAL VESICLE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; OOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1242321328     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.022830     Document Type: Short Survey

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