Early embryonic expression of the growth hormone family protein genes in the developing rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss.

abstract：:In vitro embryo production is an established method for both humans and animals, but is fraught with inferior development and health issues in offspring born after in vitro fertilization procedures. Analysis of epigenetic changes caused by exposure to in vitro conditions should shed light on potential sources of these...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Cabot B,Tseng YC,Crodian JS,Cabot R

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is an effective tool for studying gene function in oocytes, but no studies have targeted somatic cells of primary cultured cumulus cell-oocyte complexes (COCs). This is probably due to difficulty in introducing RNAi-inducing molecules, such as a short-hairpin RNA (shRNA) gene, into COCs by comm...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Sugiura K,Su YQ,Eppig JJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maturation of various aspects of sperm function have been demonstrated in monkey and human epididymal sperm, including the ability to undergo the acrosome reaction. The present study aimed to investigate the maturational changes in non-human primate sperm in the signal transduction mechanisms leading to the acroso...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Yeung CH,Weinbauer GF,Cooper TG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs) and cumulus oocyte complexes connected to a piece of the membrane granulosa (COCGs) were isolated from bovine antral follicles with a diameter of 2 to 8 mm. After culture of COCGs without gonadotrophic hormones for 22 hr approximately 50% of the oocytes were still in the germinal vesicl...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： van Tol HT,van Eijk MJ,Mummery CL,van den Hurk R,Bevers MM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposing day 5 bovine morulae to reactive oxygen species induces a delayed degeneration of some blastocysts on day 8 post-insemination (pi) but without affecting the blastocyst rates. The aim of this study was to characterize the resisting and the degenerating population of blastocysts. The kinetics of degeneration of...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Feugang JM,Donnay I,Mermillod P,Marchandise J,Lequarre AS

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro superfusion method was used to test sex hormone release from different kinds of ovarian follicle (growing follicles, postovulatory follicles, and atretic follicles) in the lizard Podarcis sicula sicula. Sex hormone output changes with the stage of follicle evolution and sexual cycle. Previtellogenetic foll...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ciarcia G,Paolucci M,Di Fiore MM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocytes enucleated at metaphase II stage can support reprogramming of transferred nucleus and further developing to term. However, the first polar body in mice sometimes migrates away from the original place of expulsion, so the chromosomes of the oocyte will displace from the first polar body. Thus, it is not always ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Wang MK,Liu JL,Li GP,Lian L,Chen DY

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins, the dimeric polypeptides of inhibin beta-subunits, exhibit paracrine effects on cell proliferation, differentiation, and various other cell functions. The complex biological response to activin appears to involve multiple receptors. In the present study, we examined the isoform mRNA expression of both activi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Wu TC,Jih MH,Wang L,Wan YJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal epididymal function, such as protein expression and secretion, is primarily regulated by testicular androgens and temperature. However, the role of spermatozoa in this critical process has never been studied. In order to determine whether sperm itself could regulate epididymal function, we have developed a cell...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Reyes-Moreno C,Laflamme J,Frenette G,Sirard MA,Sullivan R

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins are a family of cell adhesion receptors involved in many cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. Some of these heterodimeric receptors, such as alpha 5 beta 1 and alpha v beta 1, specifically recognize the amino acid sequence Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) within their ligands. The RGD sequence is found in fibronectin, v...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Fusi FM,Vignali M,Gailit J,Bronson RA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of synthetic arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD)-containing peptides to induce intracellular calcium transients similar to those observed at fertilization by spermatozoa in the bovine has been reported (Campbell et al., 2000: Biol Reprod 62:1702-1709; Sessions et al., 2006. Mol Reprod Dev). These results ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： White KL,Passipieri M,Bunch TD,Campbell KD,Pate B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the results of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) that leads to full term development of hybrid (B6C3F1 and B6D2F1) and inbred (C57BL/6) mouse embryos. Although fertilization and pre-implantation development of C57BL/6 eggs were similar to those of F1 hybrid eggs, post-implantation development of the ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kawase Y,Iwata T,Toyoda Y,Wakayama T,Yanagimachi R,Suzuki H

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat epididymal glycoprotein DE associates with the dorsal region of the sperm head during sperm maturation, migrates to the equatorial segment (ES) with the acrosome reaction (AR), and is involved in gamete membrane fusion. In the present study we examined the association of DE with the sperm surface and the relations...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Cohen DJ,Rochwerger L,Ellerman DA,Morgenfeld MM,Busso D,Cuasnicú PS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of low Mr (16 kDa-23 kDa) glycoproteins on ejaculated boar spermatozoa have been shown to have high affinity for homologous zona pellucida glycoproteins (ZPGPs). These ZPGP binding proteins are derived from seminal plasma as shown by their absence from epididymal spermatozoa and their presence in seminal plasm...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Parry RV,Barker PJ,Jones R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copulation produces different stimuli in the female reproductive tract in camelids, which lead to ovulation. Expression of β-nerve growth factor (β-NGF) and its specific receptor, tropomyosin receptor kinase A (TrKA), was studied comparing the oviductal microenvironment of mated and nonmated llamas. β-NGF and TrKA wer...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Sari LM,Zampini R,Argañaraz ME,Ratto MH,Apichela SA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexokinase is the first enzyme in the glycolytic pathway and utilizes ATP to convert glucose to glucose-6-phosphate (G6P). We previously identified three variant transcripts of Hk1 that are expressed specifically in spermatogenic cells, have different 5' untranslated regions, and encode a protein (HK1S, spermatogenic ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Nakamura N,Shibata H,O'Brien DA,Mori C,Eddy EM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the expression of cyclin A2 in mouse two-cell embryos to elucidate the role of cyclin A2 at the G2/M transition. Two forms of cyclin A2 on SDS-PAGE (an upper and a lower band) were detected in two-cell embryos synchronized at the M phase by nocodazole. To investigate the nature of...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ohashi A,Imai H,Minami N

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatozoa from the sperm-rich fractions of the semen of 6 beagle dogs were capacitated and the effect of both zona pellucida (ZP) proteins and progesterone on calcium flux and the acrosome reaction measured. Sperm calcium flux was determined using the dual wavelength calcium probe indo-1/AM (6 microM) in a flow cyto...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Brewis IA,Morton IE,Moore HD,England GC

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of ovine interferon-tau (oIFNtau) genes, essential for the maternal recognition of pregnancy in ruminant ungulates, is restricted to the trophoblast and is not detected in any other cell types or tissues. Substantial secretion of oIFNtau starts on day 12-13 of pregnancy (day 0 = day of estrus), reaches the ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Nojima H,Nagaoka K,Christenson RK,Shiota K,Imakawa K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetics includes the study of external factors that can influence the expression of genes by altering the accessibility of DNA through methylation. To investigate the epigenetic influence of season, sperm head shape, and semen storage on placental and fetal tissues, pregnancies were generated in the summer or wint...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Rempel LA,Krautkramer MM,Parrish JJ,Miles JR

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protectin (CD59) is a complement regulatory protein which blocks the membrane attack complex during complement activation. CD59 was identified on the human sperm surface by means of H19, an IgG1 anti-protectin mouse monoclonal antibody. Using indirect immunofluorescence, flow cytometry and immunoperoxidase, CD59 was f...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Fenichel P,Cervoni F,Hofmann P,Deckert M,Emiliozzi C,Hsi BL,Rossi B

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clusterin is a heterodimeric glycoprotein synthesized and secreted by rat Sertoli cells and epididymal epithelium. The goal of this study was to determine the presence of clusterin in the luminal fluid of the cauda epididymides and its association with the membranes of developing spermatozoa in the presence and absenc...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Mattmueller DR,Hinton BT

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report is part of a continuing study in which we employ monoclonal antibodies to membrane domains and internal organelles of rat spermatozoa in order to trace events during maturation, capacitation, fertilization, and early development. In the present study, we have used immunocytochemistry at the light and EM le...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Shalgi R,Magnus A,Jones R,Phillips DM

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are always more evidences indicating that 17beta-estradiol (E2) is to be necessary for normal male fertility. Here we report the expression of the most ubiquitously expressed member of the akt family of genes, akt1, in the lizard (Podarcis s. sicula) testis. We have used a nonmammalian vertebrate model (the liza...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Russo M,Troncone G,Guarino FM,Angelini F,Chieffi P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the dog, oocyte maturation, fertilization, and early embryo development take place within the oviduct in the presence of increasing circulating progesterone (P4) levels. Expression of the oviduct-specific glycoprotein 1 (OVGP1), known in other species to be estrogen-dependent, was explored by real-time quantitative...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Saint-Dizier M,Marnier C,Tahir MZ,Grimard B,Thoumire S,Chastant-Maillard S,Reynaud K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smarca 2 (Brahma) and Smarca 4 (Brahma related gene 1, BRG1) alternatively occupy the catalytic site of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes. Mammalian embryos undergo a dramatic amount of epigenetic remodeling during cleavage development, which plays key roles in regulating both gene transcription and the developme...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Magnani L,Cabot RA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem (ES) cell lines are routinely derived from in vivo produced blastocysts. We investigated the efficiency of ES cells derivation from in vitro produced blastocysts either in monoculture or sequential culture. Zygotes from hybrid F1 B6D2 mice were cultured in vitro to the blastocyst stage in Potassium (K(+...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Liu J,Schoonjans L,Tielens S,Speleman F,Cornelissen M,De Sutter P,Dhont M,Van der Elst J

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the ability of factors within the oocyte to epigenetically reprogram transferred nuclei is essential for embryonic development of the clone to proceed. However, irregular patterns of X-chromosome inactivation, abnormal expression of imprinted genes, and genomic DNA h...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Golding MC,Williamson GL,Stroud TK,Westhusin ME,Long CR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm from the decapod crustacean Rhynchocinetes typus undergo dramatic shape changes as they pass from the vas deferens to seawater and interact with the oocyte envelopes. Using FITC-phalloidin and antitubulin antibodies, we were able to localize microfilaments and a tubulin-like protein in R. typus spermatozoon. Mic...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Perez C,Roco M,Castro A,Dupre E,Schatten G,Barros C

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA encoding the bovine transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) receptor type I (bT beta R-I) was isolated from a placenta cDNA library. The deduced protein sequence of 499 residues contains a single transmembrane domain, a cysteinerich extracellular domain, and an intracellular kinase domain with pr...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Roelen BA,Van Eijk MJ,Van Rooijen MA,Bevers MM,Larson JH,Lewin HA,Mummery CL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00