Protamines in the internally fertilizing neobatrachian frog Eleutherodactylus coqui.

abstract：:The nuclear matrix is thought to be responsible for DNA organization, DNA replication, RNA synthesis, and RNA processing. We have looked for the presence of nuclear matrix antigens during early mouse embryogenesis. Antibodies to peripheral and interior antigens (P1, Pl1, Pl2, and lamin B) were used to immunolocalize n...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Prather RS,Schatten G

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase MRP is a ribonucleoprotein endoribonuclease found predominantly in nucleoli, but which has been associated with mitochondria and mitochondrial RNA processing. In order to analyze the intracellular localization of specific RNA components of ribonucleoproteins of this type, a whole-mount method for in situ hybridi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Davis AF,Jeong-Yu S,Clayton DA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the origin of the sperm motility inhibitor (SPMI) from boar seminal plasma. SPMI was measured by its capacity to inhibit the motility of demembranated spermatozoa and by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Among the various reproductive and now reproductive tissues and fluids tested, onl...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Iwamoto T,Tanaka H,Osada T,Shinagawa T,Osamura Y,Gagnon C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse and rabbit preimplantation embryos with intact zona pellucida were incubated for 3 hr with DNA-carrying constructs containing insulin as an internalizable ligand: (insulin-polylysine)-DNA and (insulin-polylysine)-DNA-(streptavidin-polylysine)-(biotinylated adenovirus). Video-intensified microscopy demonstrated t...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ivanova MM,Rosenkranz AA,Smirnova OA,Nikitin VA,Sobolev AS,Landa V,Naroditsky BS,Ernst LK

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forward-motility-stimulating factor (FMSF) is a protein, originally purified from bubaline serum, that promotes progressive motility of mature spermatozoa. FMSF binds to sperm surface receptors and activates transmembrane adenylyl cyclase (tmAC), causing a rise in intracellular cyclic AMP level ([cAMP]i) and subsequen...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Dey S,Roy D,Majumder GC,Mukherjee B,Bhattacharyya D

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male infertility or subfertility is frequently associated with disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-testis axis events, like secondary hypogonadism. However, little is known how this condition affects the proteomic composition of the epididymal fluid. In the present study, we evaluated the proteomic changes in the...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Souza APB,Lopes TN,da Silva AFT,Santi L,Beys-da-Silva WO,Yates JR 3rd,Bustamante-Filho IC

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Acrosomal reaction is an essential prerequisite to fertilization. The changes in lipid composition of sperm membranes cause fusion of the plasma and outer acrosomal membranes that results in the exocytosis of acrosomal contents. We report that both bull and rabbit spermatozoa contain a phosphatidylcholine-specific pho...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Hinkovska-Galchev V,Srivastava PN

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abattoir-derived oocytes were exposed to a concentrated cryoprotectant solution (DAP213: 2 M DMSO, 1 M acetamide, 3 M propanediol, and 10% FCS in TCM199) for 1.5 or 5 min at the germinal vesicle (GV) stage or after maturation in vitro (IVM). Their viability was assessed by in vitro fertilization (IVF) and culture (IVC...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Fuku EJ,Liu J,Downey BR

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sry expression is essential for initiating male sex differentiation, and the expression occurs only during a restricted period in the developing gonad. It is thought that Sry is part of a pathway of genes that regulate sex determination. Although the interactions of several genes with Sry expression have been suggeste...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Yokouchi K,Ito M,Nishino K,Yamanouchi K,Naito K,Suzawa M,Kato S,Hakamata Y,Endo H,Tojo H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ovarian and pituitary hormones are required for the pubertal development of the mouse mammary gland. Estradiol directs ductal elongation and branching, while progesterone leads to tertiary branching and alveolar development. The purpose of this investigation was to identify estrogen-responsive genes associated wi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Deroo BJ,Hewitt SC,Collins JB,Grissom SF,Hamilton KJ,Korach KS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we sought to determine the mechanism of early sex reversal in a teleost by applying 4 hr feminization treatments to XY (17α-ethynylestradiol 2000 μg L(-1) ) and YY (6500 μg L(-1) ) Nile tilapia embryos on the first day post-fertilization (dpf). We then searched for changes in the expression profiles of ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Gennotte V,Mélard C,D'Cotta H,Baroiller JF,Rougeot C

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular cell responses to the type 1, 2, and 3 isoforms of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta 1, TGF-beta 2, TGF-beta 3) were studied using bovine aortic endothelial (BAECs) and smooth muscle cells (BASMC3) as well as rat epididymal fat pad microvascular endothelia (RFCs). Three distinct bioassays indicate...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Madri JA,Bell L,Merwin JR

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we demonstrated that lines of transgenic mice carrying the herpes simplex type 1 virus thymidine kinase (HSV1-tk) reporter gene are male-sterile. Ectopic transcription of the HSV1-tk reporter in the testis was initiated downstream of the normal translation initiation codon and truncated proteins consistent ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ellison AR,Wallace H,al-Shawi R,Bishop JO

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a means of determining whether ovarian follicular fluid reaches the functional sperm reservoir in the caudal isthmus of the Fallopian tube shortly after ovulation, 0.01-0.02 ml aliquots of whole or steroid-free follicular fluid were introduced into the distal extremity of the isthmus within 1 hr before ovulation. E...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Hunter RH,Petersen HH,Greve T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine (GLN) is a metabolic precursor for hexosamine synthesis and its inclusion in culture medium has been reported to improve cumulus expansion. Glutamine and cysteine share the same transport system. Excess external GLN may act as a competitive inhibitor for the uptake of cysteine and stimulate loss of cellular ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Furnus CC,de Matos DG,Moses DF

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the sea urchin, some other marine invertebrates, and the frog, Xenopus, egg activation at fertilization is accompanied by an increase in intracellular pH (pHi). We measured pHi in germinal vesicle (GV)-intact mouse oocytes, ovulated eggs, and in vivo fertilized zygotes using the pH indicator dye, SNARF-1. The mean ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Phillips KP,Baltz JM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are five methyl binding domain (MBD) proteins characterized by a methyl CpG-binding domain. Four MBD proteins (MeCP2 and MBDs 1-3) are linked to transcriptional repression and one (MBD4), to DNA repair. During preimplantation development, the embryo undergoes global demethylation following fertilization and sele...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ruddock-D'Cruz NT,Xue J,Wilson KJ,Heffernan C,Prashadkumar S,Cooney MA,Sanchez-Partida LG,French AJ,Holland MK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Pumilio (Pum) family of RNA-binding proteins act as translational repressors and are required for germ cell development and asymmetric division. We identified the chicken Pum1 and Pum2 genes and analyzed their expression patterns in various tissues. Comparative sequence analysis of the Pum1 and Pum2 pro...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lee JY,Lim JM,Kim DK,Zheng YH,Moon S,Han BK,Song KD,Kim H,Han JY

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study has used methoxyacetic acid (MAA)-induced depletion of specific germ cell types in the rat and in situ hybridization with nonradioactive riboprobes to determine the stages of the spermatogenic cycle at which there is expression of the mRNA for the basic chromosomal protein transition protein 2 (TP2)....

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Saunders PT,Millar MR,Maguire SM,Sharpe RM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was reported that a hamster protein, called "oscillin," with a sequence related to that of an Escherichia coli GNPDA triggered Ca(2+) oscillations in mammalian oocytes when introduced into their cytoplasm upon fertilization. Recently, it was shown that GNPDA/oscillin is ubiquitously expressed in rat tissues and tha...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Amireault P,Dubé F

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we show that the first event of activation in the human oocyte, the Fertilization current (FC), is a slow transient outward current of 300 pA, which induces a gradual hyperpolarization of the plasma membrane from -20mV to -60mV, 60-120 min after insemination, followed by a repolarization to -20mV. Activ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Gianaroli L,Tosti E,Magli C,Iaccarino M,Ferraretti AP,Dale B

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of bovine oocytes by experimental procedures that closely mimic normal fertilization and allow to obtain haploid oocytes is essential both for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and for nuclear transfer. Therefore, with the goal of producing haploid activated oocytes, this study evaluated whether bohem...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Alberio R,Kubelka M,Zakhartchenko V,Hajdúch M,Wolf E,Motlik J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study cytoskeletal antigens common to brushtail possum and tammar wallaby spermatozoa were characterised using a monoclonal antibody (PSA-10). Using indirect immunofluorescence, the PSA-10 antibody detected antigens predominantly associated with the midpiece and principal piece of mature, permeabilised marsupi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Harris MS,Rodger JC

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative primer extension method was used to measure the mass of histone gene transcripts in mature oocytes of the amphibian Xenopus laevis. The procedure, using a large excess of gene-specific oligonucleotide primer and continuous incorporation of a radiolabeled deoxynucleoside triphosphate precursor, is more s...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Brashears-Macatee S,Hinkley C,Perry M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibin α (Inha) gene expression is regulated, in rat granulosa cells, via a cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate (AMP)-response element (CRE) found in a region of the promoter that is homologous to the human INHA promoter. We previously found that during in vitro cytotrophoblast differentiation, human INHA gene expre...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Depoix CL,Debiève F,Hubinont C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteamine when added during in vitro maturation (IVM) or in vitro embryo culture (IVC) stimulates glutathione (GSH) synthesis and improves embryo developmental rates. This suggests that GSH synthesis is decreased in the in vitro produced embryo. The present study was carried out to evaluate if addition of cysteamine ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： de Matos DG,Herrera C,Cortvrindt R,Smitz J,Van Soom A,Nogueira D,Pasqualini RS

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cow, cryopreserved semen is inseminated into the uterus, and most of sperm are removed by backflow and phagocytes. Nevertheless, the mechanism responsible for sperm phagocytosis is unclear. Here, we used cultured bovine uterine epithelial cells (BUECs) to investigate the uterine response to sperm and the mechan...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Elweza AE,Ezz MA,Acosta TJ,Talukder AK,Shimizu T,Hayakawa H,Shimada M,Imakawa K,Zaghloul AH,Miyamoto A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Izumo, a sperm membrane protein, is essential for gamete fusion in the mouse. It has an Immunoglobulin (Ig) domain and an N-terminal domain for which neither the functions nor homologous sequences are known. In the present work we identified three novel proteins showing an N-terminal domain with significant homology t...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ellerman DA,Pei J,Gupta S,Snell WJ,Myles D,Primakoff P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and sequenced the bovine NALP9 cDNA, which contains a 2991 bp long open reading frame with 76% homology to its human counterpart. The putative 996 amino acids protein presents the domain organization typical of the Nacht, Leucine rich repeat and Pyrin domain containing (NALP) family that includes the ma...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Dalbiès-Tran R,Papillier P,Pennetier S,Uzbekova S,Monget P

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00