Mouse cumulus-oocyte complexes from in vitro-cultured preantral follicles suggest an anti-luteinizing role for the EGF cascade in the cumulus cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1164-1170

  Romero, Sergio ^a   Sánchez, Flor ^a   Adriaenssens, Tom ^a   Smitz, Johan ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cumulus cells; EGF; Epiregulin; Follicle; Gene regulation; Luteinizing hormone (LH LH receptor); Ovulation

Indexed keywords

ADAMTS1 PROTEIN; AROMATASE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ILOMASTAT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EREG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HAS2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HSD3B1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CUMULUS CELLS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LUTEINIZATION; MEIOSIS; MICE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

MAMMALIA; OVULA;

EID: 79958191174     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.087551     Document Type: Article

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