Oocyte-expressed interleukin 7 suppresses granulosa cell apoptosis and promotes oocyte maturation in rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 707-714

  Cheng, Yuan ^a   Yata, Ai ^a   Klein, Cynthia ^a   Cho, Joon Ho ^a   Deguchi, Masashi ^a   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AKT pathway; Apoptosis; Caspase 3 7; Granulosa cells; Oocyte maturation

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; GONADOTROPIN; HISTONE H2A; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; STAT5 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTRAL FOLLICLE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GDF9 GENE; GENE; GERMINAL VESICLE; GRANULOSA CELL; INHIBIN ALPHA GENE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY PREOVULATORY FOLLICLE; PREANTRAL FOLLICLE; PREOVULATORY OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PTX3 GENE; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GRANULOSA CELLS; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR COMMON GAMMA SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKIN-7; OOCYTES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

RATTUS;

EID: 79953273855     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.086504     Document Type: Article

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