Fyn kinase activity is required for normal organization and functional polarity of the mouse oocyte cortex.

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：:FGF-4 appears to be the first fibroblast growth factor (FGF) expressed during embryogenesis, and its expression is critical for early mammalian development. FGF-4 is expressed in the embryonic cell lines, F9, D3, and NT2/D1; but its expression in these cells is repressed upon differentiation. Transcription of the FGF-...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lamb KA,Johnson LR,Rizzino A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine intracisternal A particle (IAP) proviral elements are expressed at low levels in undifferentiated F9 embryonal carcinoma cells but are highly expressed when F9 cells are induced to differentiate into parietal endoderm-like cells. IAP elements are also expressed in parietal endoderm-like PYS-2 cells. We prev...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kamat JP,Basu A,Satyamoorthy K,Xu MQ,Showe L,Howe CC

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the equine, the zona pellucida (ZP) is the major barrier to successful in vitro fertilization. Therefore the aim of our studies was to analyze species-specific features of the equine ZP in regard to structure and glycoprotein ZPB and ZPC expression sites during oocyte development and embryogenesis. The equine ZP re...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kölle S,Dubois CS,Caillaud M,Lahuec C,Sinowatz F,Goudet G

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperactivated motility was studied in guinea pig spermatozoa. In the presence of the local anesthetic procaine, a high number of sperm cells (64%) showed hyperactivation when incubated in minimal culture medium with pyruvate, lactate, and glucose. Hyperactivated motility was dependent on glucose in the medium. Sperm ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Mújica A,Neri-Bazan L,Tash JS,Uribe S

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ cells require communication with associated somatic cells for normal gametogenesis, as exemplified by an oocyte that interacts with granulosa cells via paracrine factors as well as gap junctions located at sites of contact between these two cell types. The objective of the present study was to define the mechanis...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： McGinnis LK,Kinsey WH

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：: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：:Cattle consuming endophyte-infected tall fescue grass have an associated reduction in circulating progesterone and reduced reproductive rates. In this study, commercially available rat microarrays were used to analyze the gene expression in luteal tissues from heifers fed endophyte-free fescue, endophyte-infected fesc...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Jones KL,King SS,Iqbal MJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that, during mouse oocyte maturation, specific maternal mRNAs (actins) are deadenylated, while others (hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase:HPRT) are adenylated. As in other systems, these changes can be correlated with changes in translational activities. Maturation-specific polyadenylation in ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Paynton BV,Bachvarova R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertilization in Bufo arenarum requires the sperm to penetrate the egg envelopes. The incubation of isolated vitelline envelopes with sperm induces the acrosome reaction, releasing proteases and glycosidases to the media. In the present work N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase, beta-D-galactosidase, beta-D-glucosidase, al...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Martínez ML,Martelotto L,Cabada MO

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three sources of hamster periovulatory fluids (+/- heat inactivation at 56 degrees C), with bovine serum albumin (BSA) as control, were tested for effects on penetration of three classes of eggs by hamster sperm precapacitated in BSA. These fluids were a soluble extract of cumulus oophorus fluid (COF) from the ovulate...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Boatman DE,Magnoni GE,Robbins RS

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：: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：:Amino acid analyses of nuclear basic proteins of an anuran amphibian, Rana catesbeiana, revealed that they are comprised of a full set of core histones and three types of lysine-rich, sperm-specific proteins. On the basis of their amino-acid compositions and partial amino-acid sequences of their trypsin-resistant core...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Itoh T,Ausio J,Katagiri C

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicocele is a prevalent pathology among infertile men. The mechanisms linking this condition to infertility, however, are poorly understood. Our previous work showed a relationship between sperm functional quality and the ability of spermatozoa to respond to capacitating conditions with increased membrane fluidity a...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Buffone MG,Brugo-Olmedo S,Calamera JC,Verstraeten SV,Urrutia F,Grippo L,Corbetta JP,Doncel GF

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study propidium iodide was used as a fluorescent dye to stain DNA of cells of hamster testicular origin and fluorescent intensities were analyzed by flow cytometry. We used hamster testicular cells from the first spermatogenic wave to observe the consecutive appearance of the different types of cells du...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Golan R,Weissenberg R,Oschry Y,Shochat L,Lewin LM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dysregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) plays an important role in asthenozoospermia. This study evaluated the sperm microRNA-423-5p (miR-423-5p) expression in asthenozoospermia and normozoospermia, exploring the role of miR-423-5p in asthenozoospermia. Eighty participants were divided into asthenozoospermic (AZS, n =...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zhang R,Zuo Y,Cao S

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a highly conserved serine/threonine protein kinase implicated in diverse cellular processes. Activity of GSK-3 is essential for meiotic chromatin segregation in oocytes, yet expression and/or function of GSK-3 have not been reported in mammalian preimplantation embryos. Objectives...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Acevedo N,Wang X,Dunn RL,Smith GD

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse metallothionein (MT) gene family consists of four known members (MT-I through IV) clustered on chromosome 8. Studies reported herein examine the expression and regulation of the MT-III and MT-IV genes in specific cell types in the maternal reproductive tract, developing embryo, and fetus known to express the...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Liang L,Fu K,Lee DK,Sobieski RJ,Dalton T,Andrews GK

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen consumption of preimplantation and early postimplantation mouse embryos has been measured using a novel noninvasive ultramicrofluorescence technique, based on an oil-soluble, nontoxic quaternary benzoid compound pyrene, whose fluorescence is quenched in the presence of oxygen. Pyruvate and glucose consumption, ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Houghton FD,Thompson JG,Kennedy CJ,Leese HJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported metabolic cooperation between Sertoli and peritubular myoid cells in terms of synthesis of one of the main testicular extracellular matrix (ECM) constituents, glycosaminoglycans (GAG). This study concerns Sertoli cell ECM-peritubular myoid cell interactions in terms of GAG synthesis. We hav...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Raychoudhury SS,Blackshaw AW,Irving MG

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm must undergo capacitation to become fertilization competent. Here we validated that monosialotetrahexosylganglioside (GM1 ) localization patterns, which were assessed in the Cap-Score™ Sperm Function Test, reflect a capacitated state in human sperm. First, we defined patterns representing sperm that do or do not...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Moody MA,Cardona C,Simpson AJ,Smith TT,Travis AJ,Ostermeier GC

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) hold great promise for cell-based therapies and drug screening applications. However, growing and processing large quantities of undifferentiated hESCs is a challenging task. Conventionally, hESCs are passaged as clusters, which can limit their growth efficiency and use in downstream...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Bajpai R,Lesperance J,Kim M,Terskikh AV

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Oocyte maturation is dependent on a complex program of morphological, ultrastructural, and biochemical signaling events, and if disrupted could lead to decreased fertility and population decline. The in vitro sensitivity of amphibian oocytes and oocyte maturation to plant growth factor and widely used hormonal herbici...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Stebbins-Boaz B,Fortner K,Frazier J,Piluso S,Pullen S,Rasar M,Reid W,Sinclair K,Winger E

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the effects of triiodothyronine (T3) on pituitary gonadotropin (GTH) subunits, thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) β subunit, and growth hormone (GH) mRNA levels, as well as gonadal steroid secretion during different stages of reproduction in goldfish. Goldfish pituitary cells cultured wit...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Allan ER,Habibi HR

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implantation is a complex process that requires the interaction of the blastocyst, and subsequently, that of the developing embryos with the endometrium. Several growth factors and cytokines are involved in implantation, but the details of their actions as related to the regulation of blastocyst implantation remain un...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Taniguchi F,Harada T,Yoshida S,Iwabe T,Onohara Y,Tanikawa M,Terakawa N

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that each of the metalloendoprotease (MEP) inhibitors phosphoramidon, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, and carbobenzoxy-L-phenylalanine, when present only during the human sperm acrosome reaction (AR), will not inhibit the AR or sperm motility but will decrease the number of sperm that pene...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Díaz-Pérez E,Meizel S

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mammalian testis the cytoplasmic beta and gamma actins are expressed in all stages of germ-cell differentiation, whereas gamma enteric actin is expressed in germ cells solely in postmeiotic stages. Northern blot analysis of mouse testicular RNAs reveals actin mRNAs of about 2.1, 1.5, and 1.4 kB. The 2.1-kB mRNA...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Gu W,Kwon YK,Hecht NB

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00