Stimulatory effect of vascular endothelial growth factor on proliferation and migration of porcine trophectoderm cells and their regulation by the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-AKT and mitogen-activated protein kinase cell signaling pathways

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Jeong, Wooyoung ^a   Kim, Jinyoung ^b   Bazer, Fuller W ^c   Song, Gwonhwa ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Dankook University   (South Korea)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Migration; Pig; Proliferation; Trophoblast; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; 4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 METHYLSULFINYLPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; RAPAMYCIN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ECTODERM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMPLANTATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA; SWINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MIGRATION; PIG; PROLIFERATION; TROPHOBLAST; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECTODERM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PREGNANCY; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 84899939793     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.115873     Document Type: Article

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