Inhibition of MAP2K and GSK3 signaling promotes bovine blastocyst development and epiblast-associated expression of pluripotency factors

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Harris, Daina ^a   Huang, Ben ^a,b   Oback, Björn ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Developmental biology; Embryo culture; Inner cell mass; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MYC PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CUMULUS CELL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TROPHOBLAST; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST INNER CELL MASS; CATTLE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LAYERS; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TROPHOBLASTS;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84877033048     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.103390     Document Type: Article

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