Enhancement of bovine oocyte maturation by leptin is accompanied by an upregulation in mRNA expression of leptin receptor isoforms in cumulus cells

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 578-587

  Van Tol, Helena T A ^a   Van Eerdenburg, Frank J C M ^a   Colenbrander, Ben ^a   Roelen, Bernard A J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bovine; Leptin; Oocyte maturation; Quantitative RT PCR; Receptor

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CUMULUS CELLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LEPTIN; MEIOSIS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; OOCYTES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; UP-REGULATION;

BOVINAE;

EID: 40049086651     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20801     Document Type: Article

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