Growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) stimulates proliferation and inhibits steroidogenesis by bovine theca cells: Influence of follicle size on responses to GDF9

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 243-253

  Spicer, Leon J ^a   Aad, Pauline Y ^a   Allen, Dustin T ^a   Mazerbourg, Sabine ^b   Payne, Anita H ^b   Hsueh, Aaron J ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Follicle; Follicular development; Gene expression; Growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9); Growth factors; Insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF1); LH; Ovary; Steroidogenesis; Theca cells

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS; THECA CELL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GRANULOSA CELLS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; THECA CELLS;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 38549131261     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.063446     Document Type: Article

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