Stops and starts in mammalian oocytes: Recent advances in understanding the regulation of meiotic arrest and oocyte maturation

Reproduction

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 791-799

  Mehlmann, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

CELL MATURATION; CELL STIMULATION; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MAMMAL CELL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC AMP; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 27544472085     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00793     Document Type: Review

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