Leptin promotes meiotic progression and developmental capacity of bovine oocytes via cumulus cell-independent and -dependent mechanisms

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 532-541

  Paula Lopes, Fabíola F ^a,b   Boelhauve, Marc ^a   Habermann, Felix A ^a   Sinowatz, Fred ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cumulus cells; Gene regulation; Leptin receptor

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BAX GENE; BIRC4 GENE; BLASTOCYST; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; ESTRUS; FAS GENE; FASLG GENE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; LEPR GENE; MEIOSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; POLYSPERMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM; STAT3 GENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEPTIN; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BOVINAE;

EID: 33847181740     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.054551     Document Type: Article

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