Hyal-1 but not Hyal-3 deficiency has an impact on ovarian folliculogenesis and female fertility by altering the follistatin/activin/Smad3 pathway and the apoptotic process

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 227, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1911-1922

  Dumaresq Doiron, Karine ^a   Edjekouane, Lydia ^a   Orimoto, Adriana Mari ^a   Yoffou, Paule Héléna ^a   Gushulak, Lara ^b   Triggs Raine, Barbara ^b   Carmona, Euridice ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; CASPASE 3; FOLLISTATIN; HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIDASE; HYALURONIDASE 1; HYALURONIDASE 2; HYALURONIDASE 3; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; SMAD3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GRANULOSA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; FOLLISTATIN; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84856151323     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: 10974652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.22919     Document Type: Article

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