Post-ovulatory ageing of mouse oocytes affects the distribution of specific spindle-associated proteins and Akt expression levels

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 562-569

  Cecconi, Sandra ^a   Rossi, Gianna ^a   Deldar, Hamid ^b   Cellini, Valerio ^a   Patacchiola, Felice ^a   Carta, Gaspare ^a   Macchiarelli, Guido ^a   Canipari, Rita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b SARI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

apoptosis; germ cells; histone phosphorylation; kinase; microtubules

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GAMMA TUBULIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; MESSENGER RNA; POLO LIKE KINASE 1; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; SPINDLE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AKT1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; HISTONE; ONCOPROTEIN; POLO-LIKE KINASE 1; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; FEMALE; HISTONE ACETYLATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MEIOTIC SPINDLE; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVULATION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINDLE POLE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ACETYLATION; ANIMAL; CELL AGING; CELL SURVIVAL; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TIME;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HISTONES; MICE; OOCYTES; OVULATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TIME FACTORS; TUBULIN;

EID: 84898048280     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD13010     Document Type: Article

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