Recent advances in meiotic maturation and ovulation: Comparing mammals and pisces

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1898-1914

  Senthilkumaran, Balasubramanian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

17alpha; 20beta dihydroxy progesterone; 20beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase; Final oocyte maturation; Maturation promoting factor; Maturation inducing hormone; Progestins; Review; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; PISCES;

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 3ALPHA(OR 20BETA) HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE ANCHORING PROTEIN; MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; STEROID; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; A KINASE ANCHOR PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CORTISONE REDUCTASE; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; FISHES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MATURATION-PROMOTING FACTOR; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79955020050     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3829     Document Type: Article

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