Positive feedback loop between prostaglandin E2 and EGF-like factors is essential for sustainable activation of MAPK3/1 in cumulus cells during in vitro maturation of porcine cumulus oocyte complexes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1073-1082

  Yamashita, Yasuhisa ^a   Okamoto, Minako ^b   Kawashima, Ikko ^c   Okazaki, Tetsuji ^d   Nishimura, Ryo ^b   Gunji, Yosuke ^b,e   Hishinuma, Mitsugu ^b   Shimada, Masayuki ^c  

^a PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Smaller Livestock and Environment Section   (Japan)

^e YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cumulus cells; In vitro maturation; Oocyte maturation; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FOLLITROPIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; N (2 CYCLOHEXYLOXY 4 NITROPHENYL)METHANESULFONAMIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN E RECEPTOR 2; PROSTAGLANDIN E RECEPTOR 4; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA CONVERTING ENZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CUMULUS CELL; CUMULUS OOCYTE COMPLEX; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CUMULUS CELLS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DINOPROSTONE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MODELS, ANIMAL; NITROBENZENES; OOCYTES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN E; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFONAMIDES; SWINE;

SUS;

EID: 81055148194     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.090092     Document Type: Article

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