Cytokines in ovarian folliculogenesis, oocyte maturation and luteinisation

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 284-314

  Field, Sarah L ^a   Dasgupta, Tathagata ^b   Cummings, Michele ^a   Orsi, Nicolas M ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 2; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR7; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYTOKINE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CUMULUS CELL; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEINIZATION; LUTEOLYSIS; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAST CELL; METABOLISM; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; OOCYTE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CYTOKINES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HUMANS; LUTEINIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MAST CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84898041840     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22285     Document Type: Review

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