Bidirectional communication between oocytes and ovarian follicular somatic cells is required for meiotic arrest of mammalian oocytes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 39, 2013, Pages

  Wigglesworth, Karen ^a   Lee, Kyung Bon ^a,b   O'Brien, Marilyn J ^a   Peng, Jia ^c,d   Matzuk, Martin M ^c,d,e,f   Eppig, John J ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Departments of Pathology and Immunology   (Colombia)

^d Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics   (United States)

^e Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology   (United States)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; CYCLIC GMP; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HETERODIMER; HORMONE RECEPTOR; HYPOXANTHINE; INOSINATE DEHYDROGENASE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GRANULOSA CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CUMULUS CELLS; CYCLIC GMP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYPOXANTHINE; IMP DEHYDROGENASE; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; RECEPTORS, ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84884642391     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314829110     Document Type: Article

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