Comparison between effects of 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine and FSH on gap junctional communication, LH-receptor expression, and meiotic maturation of cumulus-oocyte complexes in pigs

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 857-866

  Ozawa, Manabu ^a,e   Nagai, Takashi ^b   Somfai, Tamás ^a   Nakai, Michiko ^a   Maedomari, Naoki ^c   Fahrudin, Mokhamad ^a   Karja, Ni Wayan Kurniani ^a,b   Kaneko, Hiroyuki ^a   Noguchi, Junko ^a   Ohnuma, Katsuhiko ^a   Yoshimi, Noriko ^d   Miyazaki, Hitoshi ^d   Kikuchi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

cAMP; Gap junction; LH receptor; Meiotic maturation; Phosphodiesterase

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; ISOBUTYLMETHYLXANTHINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL MATURATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TRANSFER; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SWINE;

1-METHYL-3-ISOBUTYLXANTHINE; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CUMULUS CELLS; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; RECEPTORS, LH; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE;

SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 41149149372     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20820     Document Type: Article

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