Developmental and hormonal regulation of cumulus expansion and secretion of cumulus expansion-enabling factor (CEEF) in goat follicles

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1387-1395

  Zhang, Xia ^a   Han, Yi Bing ^b   Sui, Hong Shu ^a   Miao, De Qiang ^a   Wang, Jun Zuo ^a   Li, Kun Liang ^a   Tan, Jing He ^a  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cumulus expansion; Follicle development; Goat; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

CUMULUS EXPANSION ENABLING FACTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL SIZE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; FEMALE; FETUS; GOAT; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THECA CELL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CUMULUS CELLS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GOATS; HORMONES; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; TEMPERATURE;

CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 47749146465     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20881     Document Type: Article

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