CB1 cannabinoid receptor drives oocyte maturation and embryo development via PI3K/Akt and MAPK pathways

FASEB Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 3372-3382

  López Cardona, Angela Patricia ^a,b   Pérez Cerezales, Serafín ^a   Fernández González, Raúl ^a   Laguna Barraza, Ricardo ^a   Pericuesta, Eva ^a   Agirregoitia, Naiara ^c   Gutiérrez Adán, Alfonso ^a   Agirregoitia, Ekaitz ^c  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Embryology; Fertility

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; CANNABINOID 2 RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; OOCYTES; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB2;

EID: 85026829240     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.201601382RR     Document Type: Article

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