Regulation of oocyte maturation in fish

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Yamashita, Masakane ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

17 ,20 dihydroxy 4 pregnen 3 one; Fish; Gonadotropin; Maturation inducing hormone; Maturation promoting factor; Oocyte maturation

Indexed keywords

17,20BETA DIHYDROXYPREGN 4 EN 3 ONE; AROMATASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIN B; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; CYTOCHROME P450C17; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; HORMONE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL TYPE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME REGULATION; FISH; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; VITELLOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CYCLIN B; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HORMONES; MALE; MATURATION-PROMOTING FACTOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PISCES;

EID: 44249092617     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01019.x     Document Type: Review

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