EGF-like peptides mediate FSH-induced maturation of cumulus cell-enclosed mouse oocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-114

  Downs, Stephen M ^a   Chen, Jing ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphiregulin; EGF like peptides; FSH induced maturation; Oocyte maturation

Indexed keywords

4 (3 CHLOROANILINO) 6,7 DIMETHOXYQUINAZOLINE; AMPHIREGULIN; ANTIBODY; BISINDOLYLMALEIMIDE; BUCLADESINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; PROTEIN KINASE C;

AGONIST; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STIMULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GERMINAL VESICLE; HORMONE ACTION; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CUMULUS CELLS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GLYCOPROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MICE; OOCYTES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN KINASE C; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TYRPHOSTINS;

EID: 36849000446     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20781     Document Type: Article

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