Effects of BMP4/SMAD signaling pathway on mouse primordial follicle growth and survival via up-regulation of Sohlh2 and c-kit

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-78

  Ding, Xiangyun ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaoli ^a   Mu, Yulan ^c   Li, Yi ^a   Hao, Jing ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Medical College   (China)

^c SHANDONG PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMAD8 PROTEIN; SPERMATOGENESIS AND OOGENESIS SPECIFIC BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; ORGAN CULTURE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84872621540     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22138     Document Type: Article

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