Fetuin-B, a liver-derived plasma protein is essential for fertilization

Developmental Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-112

  Dietzel, Eileen ^a   Wessling, Jennifer ^a   Floehr, Julia ^a   Schäfer, Cora ^a   Ensslen, Silke ^a   Denecke, Bernd ^a   Rösing, Benjamin ^a   Neulen, Joseph ^a   Veitinger, Thomas ^a   Spehr, Marc ^a   Tropartz, Tanja ^a   Tolba, René ^a   Renné, Thomas ^b   Egert, Angela ^c   Schorle, Hubert ^c   Gottenbusch, Yuliya ^d   Hildebrand, André ^d   Yiallouros, Irene ^d   Stöcker, Walter ^d   Weiskirchen, Ralf ^a   Jahnen Dechent, Willi ^a   more..

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETUIN B; OVASTACIN; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; WILD TYPE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUIN-B; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; METALLOPROTEASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OOCYTES; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

GRANULA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84876410196     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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