The molecular evolution of acrosin in placental mammals.

abstract：:Infusion of seminal plasma in the uterus is known to elicit an instant inflammatory response in the porcine uterus, but whether or not it prepares a uterine immunological response to the presence of conceptuses is not well understood. Seminal plasma induced long-term modulatory effects and conceptus-induced immune cha...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Jalali BM,Kitewska A,Wasielak M,Bodek G,Bogacki M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EPPIN (epididymal protease inhibitor; SPINLW1), an antimicrobial cysteine-rich protein containing both Kunitz and whey acidic protein (WAP)-type four disulfide core protease inhibitor consensus sequences, is a target for male contraception because of its critical role in sperm motility. Here, we characterized EPPIN's ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Silva EJ,Patrão MT,Tsuruta JK,O'Rand MG,Avellar MC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using alpha and beta spectrin mammalian antibodies on Western blotting, we demonstrated that lizard ovarian follicles contain two isoforms of alpha spectrin, Mr 94 and 134 kDa, and a 230 kDa beta spectrin, and that their pattern modifies in relation to pyriform cell differentiation. In fact, a positive immunoreaction ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ricchiari L,Carmela VM,Marina P,Rosa C,Annamaria L,Piero A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) on the development of cultured rat pre-antral follicles. Pre-antral follicles with a diameter between 140 and 160 microm are mechanically isolated from ovaries of 10-day-old rats and cultured in groups for 6 days in FSH and...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zhao J,Taverne MA,Van Der Weijden GC,Bevers MM,Van Den Hurk R

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a specific protein binding assay we have shown that a spermatozoon of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis contains 1.58 +/- 0.74 x 10(-19) moles of inositol 1,4,5-tri-phosphate (InsP3), while a human spermatozoon contains 6.4 +/- 0.14 x 10(-19) moles. Induction of the acrosome reaction (AR) in both species, by expos...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Tosti E,Palumbo A,Dale B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germinal vesicle (GV) breakdown in mammalian oocytes is regulated by the activation of maturation promoting factor (MPF). We investigated a specific cdc2 kinase inhibitor, roscovitine, to maintain pig oocytes in the GV stage. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were aspirated from slaughterhouse ovaries and cultured for 4...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ju JC,Tsay C,Ruan CW

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphological analysis of the spermatozoa from fertile and infertile men was performed using light and electron microscopy to clarify the relationship between sperm morphology and fertility. Semen samples obtained from 22 partners of pregnant women were prepared according to the protocol standardized in an interna...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kubo-Irie M,Matsumiya K,Iwamoto T,Kaneko S,Ishijima S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oocyte maturation is accompanied by differentiation of surrounding cumulus cells. These cells produce hyaluronic acid (HA) and its storage in intercellular spaces results in expansion of the cells. The cumulus cells also accumulate cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) during maturation. Both expansion and cox-2 storage are regula...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Vigneron C,Nuttinck F,Perreau C,Reinaud P,Charpigny G,Mermillod P

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:Global warming represents a major stressful environmental condition that compromises the reproductive efficiency of animals and humans via a rise of body temperature above its physiological homeothermic point (heat stress [HS]). The injuries caused by HS on reproductive function involves both male and female component...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Boni R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p53, p21, and Rb are proteins with an important role in cell-cycle control. The expression and distribution of these gene products and the apoptotic rate were studied in the marbled-newt testis along the annual cycle to know the role of these factors in the control of spermatogenesis and glandular tissue formation. Th...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ricote M,Alfaro JM,García-Tuñón I,Arenas MI,Fraile B,Paniagua R,Royuela M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibulin-1 is a secreted protein associated with elastic matrix fibres and basement membranes. It plays a role in stabilizing blood vessels and can also regulate cell motility and invasiveness. We studied the regulation of the fibulin-1 gene in the rat and human endometrium, an organ where cyclic tissue remodeling and ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Haendler B,Yamanouchi H,Lessey BA,Chwalisz K,Hess-Stumpp H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamete membrane interaction is critical to initiate the development of a new organism. The signaling pathways governing this event, however, are poorly understood. In this report, we provide the first evidence that protein kinase C activity in mouse eggs plays a crucial role in the regulation of this process. Stimulat...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Akabane H,Fan J,Zheng X,Zhu GZ

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells are used widely as a model system for studying the expression of developmentally regulated genes, in particular genes that are regulated at the transcriptional level when EC cells differentiate. This review focuses on the molecular mechanisms that govern the transcription of the fibrobla...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lamb KA,Rizzino A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-length cDNA of a novel mouse gene upregulated in late stages of spermatogenic cells was cloned from mouse testis using overlapping RT-PCR and RACE. The mRNA of the gene was expressed mainly in diplotene/pachytene spermatocytes, round and elongating spermatids. We named this gene as SRG-L (Spermatogenesis Related ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ma Q,Wang H,Guo R,Wang H,Ge Y,Ma J,Xue S,Han D

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Fertilization in invertebrates results in tyrosine (Tyr) phosphorylation of several egg proteins. However, the involvement of Tyr phosphorylation in mediating mammalian egg activation has not yet been investigated. Using an antibody specific for phosphotyrosine (P-Tyr), immunoblotting, and densitometric analysis, we f...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ben-Yosef D,Talmor A,Shwartz L,Granot Y,Shalgi R

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:Haprin (TRIM36) is a ubiquitin-protein ligase that mediates ubiquitination and subsequent proteasomal degradation of target proteins. It is expressed in the testes in both mice and humans and is thought to be involved in spermiogenesis, the acrosome reaction, and fertilization. However, the functional role of Haprin i...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Aoki Y,Tsujimura A,Kaseda K,Okabe M,Tokuhiro K,Ohta T,O'Bryan MK,Okuda H,Kitamura K,Ogawa Y,Fujiki T,Wada M,Horie S,Nishimune Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that orchestrate numerous cellular processes both under normal physiological conditions as well as in diseases. This review summarizes the functional roles and transcriptional regulation of the highly evolutionarily conserved miRNA, microRNA-31 (miR-31). miR-31 is an importa...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Stepicheva NA,Song JL

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internally fertilizing primitive frog Ascaphus truei (family Ascaphidae) from the Pacific Northwest is the only frog with an intromittent organ. The more advanced neobatrachian frog Eleutherodactylus coqui (family Leptodactylidae) from Puerto Rico has secondarily acquired internal fertilization but mates by cloaca...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kasinsky HE,Frehlick LJ,Su HW,Ausio J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) plays important regulatory roles during mouse spermatogenesis. PKA-mediated signaling has been shown to regulate gene expression, chromatin condensation, capacitation, and motility during sperm development and behavior, although how PKA is regulated in spatiotemporal manners durin...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Xu K,Qi H

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P450aromatase (CYP19) is an essential part of the enzyme complex catalyzing the conversion of androgens into estrogens, which is a key reaction in the sex differentiation in vertebrates. Two full-length cDNAs encoding the genetic distinct CYP19A and CYP19B isozymes were isolated from Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hip...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： van Nes S,Moe M,Andersen Ø

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-neuronal monoamine transporters (OCT1, OCT2, EMT, and PMAT) play a key role in the clearance of monoamines from extracellular compartments. In a previous report we described endometrial distribution and cyclic variation of the vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT2) mRNA and the neuronal norepinephrine transpo...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Bottalico B,Noskova V,Pilka R,Larsson I,Domanski H,Casslén B,Hansson SR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovulated rat oocytes undergo spontaneous activation during in vitro culture. After extrusion of the second polar body, they do not enter interphase but are arrested again in next metaphase-like stage (M III arrest). The present study demonstrates that puromycin and chloral hydrate can trigger transition to interphase ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zernicka-Goetz M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive tract environment at conception programs the developmental trajectory of the embryo, sets the course of pregnancy, and impacts offspring phenotype and health. Despite the fundamental importance of this stage of reproduction, the rate-limiting regulatory mechanisms operating locally to control fertilit...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Robertson SA,Zhang B,Chan H,Sharkey DJ,Barry SC,Fullston T,Schjenken JE

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play an important role in the integration and transmission of cell death signals mediated by the Bcl-2 family proteins. Experiments were conducted to determine whether the anti-apoptotic peptides BH4 domain of Bcl-xL (TAT-BH4) and Bax inhibitor peptide (BIP) suppresses heat stress (HS) injury in oocytes b...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Soto P,Smith LC

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:The process of chromatin condensation during spermiogenesis in Rana tigerina is similar to the heterochromatization in somatic cells, where 30 nm fibers are coalesced together into a dense mass in spermatozoa without changing their initial size and nucleosomal organization. This conclusion was supported by the finding...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Manochantr S,Sretarugsa P,Chavadej J,Sobhon P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00