Molecular mechanisms and pathways involved in bovine embryonic genome activation and their regulation by alternative in vivo and in vitro culture conditions

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Gad, Ahmed ^a,d   Hoelker, Michael ^a   Besenfelder, Urban ^b   Havlicek, Vitezslav ^b   Cinar, Ulas ^a   Rings, Franca ^a   Held, Eva ^a   Dufort, Isabelle ^c   Sirard, Marc André ^c   Schellander, Karl ^a   Tesfaye, Dawit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bovine; Culture conditions; Embryonic genome activation; Gene expression; Lipid metabolism; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

LIPID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC GENOME ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

BOVINAE;

EID: 84869430770     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.099697     Document Type: Article

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