Oocyte-derived R-spondin2 promotes ovarian follicle development

FASEB Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2175-2184

  Cheng, Yuan ^a   Kawamura, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Takae, Seido ^a   Deguchi, Masashi ^a   Yang, Qing ^a   Kuo, Calvin ^a   Hsueh, Aaron J W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryos; Follicle development; Fsh; Ovulation; Wnt pathway

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; HEMATOXYLIN; R SPONDIN2; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT3A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

EMBRYOS; FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; FSH; OVULATION; WNT PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, SCID; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PREGNANCY; THROMBOSPONDINS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

MUS;

EID: 84878761905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-223412     Document Type: Article

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