Specific Disruption of Tsc1 in Ovarian Granulosa Cells Promotes Ovulation and Causes Progressive Accumulation of Corpora Lutea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Lin ^a,b   Wang, Zhen Bo ^a   Jiang, Zong Zhe ^a,b   Hu, Meng Wen ^a,b   Lin, Fei ^a   Zhang, Qing Hua ^a   Luo, Yi Bo ^a   Hou, Yi ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Fan, Heng Yu ^c   Schatten, Heide ^d   Sun, Qing Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; PROTEIN RPS6; PROTEIN S6; RAPAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE DISRUPTION; GRANULOSA CELL; HISTOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MATING; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPRODUCTION; SUPEROVULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX 1 GENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GENE ORDER; GENE TARGETING; GRANULOSA CELLS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84872381344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054052     Document Type: Article

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