Involvement of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway in LH- and meiosis-activating sterol (MAS)-induced maturation in rat and mouse oocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1533-1541

  Motola, Shmulik ^a   Cao, Xiumei ^a   Popliker, Malka ^a   Tsafriri, Alex ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

MAPK; MAS; Mos; Oocyte maturation; Resumption of meiosis

Indexed keywords

1,4 BIS(2 CHLOROBENZYLAMINOMETHYL)CYCLOHEXANE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEIOSIS ACTIVATING STEROL; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; STEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MOS; RATS; STEROLS; TRANS-1,4-BIS(2-CHLOROBENZAMINOMETHYL)CYCLOHEXANE DIHYDROCHLORIDE;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 50249142545     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20899     Document Type: Article

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