B-vitamin and homocysteine status determines ovarian response to gonadotropin treatment in sheep

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 743-752

  Kanakkaparambil, Raji ^a   Singh, Ravinder ^a   Li, Dongfang ^a   Webb, Robert ^a   Sinclair, Kevin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Biosciences Sutton Bonington Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMH; Follicle; Follicle stimulating hormone; Follicle stimulating hormone receptor; Follicular development; Granulosa cells; Homocysteine; Ovarian follicle; Vitamin b12

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 2; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; HOMOCYSTEINE; INSULIN; METHYLMALONIC ACID; VITAMIN B GROUP;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DIET; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPINS; GRANULOSA CELLS; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLMALONIC ACID; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; SHEEP; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; VITAMIN B DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 65249086235     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.072074     Document Type: Article

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