KIT/KIT ligand in mammalian oogenesis and folliculogenesis: Roles in rabbit and murine ovarian follicle activation and oocyte growth

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 421-433

  Hutt, Karla J ^a,d   McLaughlin, Eileen A ^b   Holland, Michael K ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Follicle; Folliculogenesis; Granulosa cells; KIT; KIT ligand; Oocyte development; Ovary; Primordial follicle; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORGAN CULTURE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RABBIT; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STEM CELL FACTOR;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33747599592     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.051516     Document Type: Article

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