CNP/NPR2 signaling maintains oocyte meiotic arrest in early antral follicles and is suppressed by EGFR-mediated signaling in preovulatory follicles

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 795-802

  Tsuji, Takehito ^a   Kiyosu, Chiyo ^a   Akiyama, Kouyou ^a   Kunieda, Tetsuo ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR C; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE TYPE C;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; GRANULOSA CELL; HISTOLOGY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GONADOTROPINS; GRANULOSA CELLS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, C-TYPE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

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EID: 84869870369     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22114     Document Type: Article

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