Notch signaling regulates ovarian follicle formation and coordinates follicular growth

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 499-511

  Vanorny, Dallas A ^a   Prasasya, Rexxi D ^a   Chalpe, Abha J ^a   Kilen, Signe M ^a   Mayo, Kelly E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CD1 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; EOSIN; FIGLA PROTEIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; HEMATOXYLIN; JAGGED1; JAGGED2; MESSENGER RNA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN S6; RNA 18S; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HEY 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZP3 PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SERRATE PROTEINS; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GERM CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; STAINING; UPREGULATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GERM CELLS; GRANULOSA CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOCYTES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RECEPTOR, NOTCH2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84897944532     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2013-1288     Document Type: Article

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