Impacts of and interactions between environmental stress and epigenetic programming during early embryo development

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1125-1136

  Bertoldo, Michael J ^a   Locatelli, Yann ^a,b,c,d   O'Neill, Christopher ^e   Mermillod, Pascal ^a,c,d  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

apoptosis; assisted reproductive technologies; cAMP response element binding protein; embryotrophins; oocyte quality; phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN P53; STAT3 PROTEIN;

BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIGENETICS; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPEROVULATION; SURVIVAL FACTOR; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; INFERTILITY THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84943811712     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD14049     Document Type: Review

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