Epidermal growth factor (EGF) sustains in vitro primordial follicle viability by enhancing stromal cell proliferation via mapk and PI3K pathways in the prepubertal, but not adult, cat ovary

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Fujihara, Mayako ^a   Comizzoli, Pierre ^a   Keefer, Carol L ^b   Wildt, David E ^a   Songsasen, Nucharin ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Folliculogenesis; In vitro culture; Ovary; Primordial follicle

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA CELL; TISSUE CULTURE; AGE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; SEXUAL MATURATION; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84903761039     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.115089     Document Type: Article

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