Differential effects of follistatin on nonhuman primate oocyte maturation and pre-implantation embryo development in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1139-1146

  Vandevoort, Catherine A ^a   Mtango, Namdori R ^b   Lee, Young S ^b   Smith, George W ^c   Latham, Keith E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo; Gene expression; Gene regulation; Granulosa cells; Oocyte development; Ovary; Rhesus macaque

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; MESSENGER RNA; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHESUS MONKEY; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO CULTURE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETICS; MACACA; METABOLISM; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CULTURE MEDIA; CUMULUS CELLS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLISTATIN; GRANULOSA CELLS; INHIBINS; MACACA MULATTA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 73949128007     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.077198     Document Type: Article

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