Human chorionic gonadotropin-dependent up-regulation of epiregulin and amphiregulin in equine and bovine follicles during the ovulatory process

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-47

  Sayasith, Khampoun ^a   Lussier, Jacques ^a   Doré, Monique ^a   Sirois, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

AREG; Equine preovulatory follicles; EREG; Ovulation regulated genes; Ovulatory process; Primary bovine granulosa cells

Indexed keywords

ADAM17 PROTEIN; AMPHIREGULIN; CATHEPSIN L; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIREGULIN; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROSTAGLANDIN E RECEPTOR 2; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; COW; CTSL2 GENE; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENE; GRANULOSA CELL; HORSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MMP1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; PGR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PTGER2 GENE; PTGS2 GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; THECA CELL; TNFAIP6 GENE; UPREGULATION; VEGFA GENE;

EID: 84870923397     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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