Sequential exposure of porcine cumulus cells to FSH and/or LH is critical for appropriate expression of steroidogenic and ovulation-related genes that impact oocyte maturation in vivo and in vitro

Reproduction

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-21

  Kawashima, Ikkou ^a   Okazaki, Tetsuji ^a,b   Norma, Noritaka ^a   Nishibori, Masahide ^a   Yamashita, Yasuhisa ^a,c   Shimada, Masayuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Oita Prefectural Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Research Center   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DISINTEGRIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GILT (SWINE); GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; UPREGULATION;

EQUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 47249150530     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-08-0074     Document Type: Article

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