Selective Smad4 knockout in ovarian preovulatory follicles results in multiple defects in ovulation

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 966-978

  Yu, Chao ^a   Zhang, Yin Li ^a   Fan, Heng Yu ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; CRE RECOMBINASE; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE TYPE C; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMAD8 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GRANULOSA CELL; LUTEINIZATION; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DINOPROSTONE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ATRESIA; GLYCOPROTEINS; GRANULOSA CELLS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LUTEINIZATION; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84877901000     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2012-1364     Document Type: Article

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