Rapamycin-sensitive mTORC1 signaling is involved in physiological primordial follicle activation in mouse ovary

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1018-1034

  Tong, Yuanyuan ^a   Li, Fei ^b   Lu, Yi ^a   Cao, Yanlan ^a   Gao, Jimin ^b   Liu, Jianghuai ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN A2; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1B; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAPAMYCIN; S6 KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENESCENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CYCLIN A2; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P27; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; OOCYTES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84890425412     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22267     Document Type: Article

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