Evidence supporting a functional requirement of SMAD4 for bovine preimplantation embryonic development: A potential link to embryotrophic actions of follistatin

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Kyung Bon ^a,b   Zhang, Kun ^a   Folger, Joseph K ^a   Knott, Jason G ^a   Smith, George W ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cattle; Embryo; Follistatin; Oocyte; SMAD4; TGF signaling

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; FOLLISTATIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L15; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L19; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BLASTOMA; BOVINE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; INDIRECT FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; SLAUGHTERHOUSE;

BOS; BOVINAE;

ABATTOIRS; ALPHA-AMANITIN; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; CATTLE; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SMAD4 PROTEIN;

EID: 84921320102     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.120105     Document Type: Article

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