Cumulus cell-enclosed oocytes acquire a capacity to synthesize GSH by FSH stimulation during in vitro maturation in pigs

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 294-301

  Ozawa, Manabu ^a,e   Nagai, Takashi ^b   Somfai, Tamás ^a   Nakai, Michiko ^a   Maedomari, Naoki ^c   Miyazaki, Hitoshi ^d   Kaneko, Hiroyuki ^a   Noguchi, Junko ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GLUTATHIONE; MESSENGER RNA; CARBENOXOLONE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; SWINE; TIME;

SUIDAE; SUS;

ANIMALS; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CUMULUS CELLS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; OOCYTES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73349113998     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21949     Document Type: Article

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