WNT5a is required for normal ovarian follicle development and antagonizes gonadotropin responsiveness in granulosa cells by suppressing canonical WNT signaling

FASEB Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1534-1547

  Abedini, Atefeh ^a   Zamberlam, Gustavo ^a   Lapointe, Evelyne ^a   Tourigny, Catherine ^a   Boyer, Alexandre ^a   Paquet, Marilène ^a   Hayashi, Kanako ^b   Honda, Hiroaki ^c   Kikuchi, Akira ^d   Price, Christopher ^a   Boerboom, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditional gene targeting; Female fertility; Microarray

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; GONADOTROPIN; WNT11 PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN; CREB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTOME; WNT PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; OVARY FOLLICLE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; WNT PROTEINS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WNT-5A PROTEIN;

EID: 84963894222     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.15-280313     Document Type: Article

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