Cyclic GMP signaling is involved in the luteinizing hormone-dependent meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 595-604

  Vaccari, Sergio ^a   Weeks II, James L ^a   Hsieh, Minnie ^a   Menniti, Frank S ^b   Conti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Cyclic adenosine monophosphate; Cyclic guanosine monophosphate; Follicle; GVBD; Luteinizing hormone; Meiosis; Meiotic arrest; Meiotic maturation; Oocyte; Ovary; PDE3A; PDE5A

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE III; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STIMULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GERM CELL; HYDROLYSIS; IC 50; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 3; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 69749084005     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.077768     Document Type: Article

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