Localization of microfilaments and a tubulin-like protein in crustacean (Rhynchocinetes typus) spermatozoon.

abstract：:The aim of the present series of experiments was to investigate the effect of the size of follicle from which the oocytes originate on their subsequent in vitro developmental ability. Ovarian follicles were isolated and grouped according to size (2-6 mm, > 6 mm). Primary oocytes were carefully liberated and grouped ac...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lonergan P,Monaghan P,Rizos D,Boland MP,Gordon I

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility to isolate canine mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from foetal adnexa is interesting since several canine genetic disorders are reported to resemble similar dysfunctions in humans. In this study, we successfully isolated, cytogenetically and molecularly characterized, and followed the differentiation pote...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Filioli Uranio M,Valentini L,Lange-Consiglio A,Caira M,Guaricci AC,L'Abbate A,Catacchio CR,Ventura M,Cremonesi F,Dell'Aquila ME

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the cloning and characterization of a partial cDNA, x121, that represents an RNA, which is localized in the animal hemisphere of Xenopus oocytes. This RNA is also detected in an animal to vegetal gradient during early cleavage stages. The x121 RNA titer decreases from fertilization through the gastrula sta...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kloc M,Reddy BA,Miller M,Eastman E,Etkin LD

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited understanding of the importance of known pluripotency factors in pig embryonic stem cells (ESC) impedes the establishment and validation of porcine ESC lines. This study evaluated the expression of known mouse ESC and human ESC (hESC) pluripotency markers in in vivo inner cell mass (ICM) and in vitro-cultured ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Blomberg LA,Schreier LL,Talbot NC

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme activities were determined quantitatively in individual rat oocytes to study their energy metabolism during maturation. Low hexokinase activity and high activities of lactate dehydrogenase and enzymes in the phosphate pathway, i.e., glucose 6-P and 6-P gluconate dehydrogenases, were characteristic of immature o...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Tsutsumi O,Satoh K,Taketani Y,Kato T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in spermatozoan ultrastructure have been studied during spermiogenesis of the slug Arion rufus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Stylommatophora). The ovotestis was investigated during the male stage, definite by the presence of spermatozoa. Some peculiar characteristics are shown by early spermatids: Around the nucleus...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Pastisson C,Lacorre I

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the incidence of activation, male pronuclear formation, and apposition of pronuclei in porcine oocytes following intracytoplasmic injection of various porcine sperm components and foreign species spermatozoa, such as that of cattle, mouse or human. The porcine oocytes were activated by injection of a spe...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kim NH,Jun SH,Do JT,Uhm SJ,Lee HT,Chung KS

更新日期：1999-05-01 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 uterus and the placenta synthesize insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and insulin-like binding proteins (IGFBPs). These growth factors are implicated in processes of proliferation and differentiation that occur in the uterus. To determine the patterns of expression of IGFs during rat pregnancy we used in situ hybr...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Correia-da-Silva G,Bell SC,Pringle JH,Teixeira N

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of ionic changes involved in initiation of acrosomal exocytosis in capacitated mouse spermatozoa was investigated. Earlier studies demonstrated that a large influx of Na+ is required for exocytosis, this Na+ apparently being associated with an increase in intracellular pH (pHi) via an Na(+)-H+ exchanger. ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Fraser LR

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：:We report the primary structures of two mRNA species (GH1 and GH2), each predicted from the cloned cDNA and genomic gene sequences, that encode growth hormone in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). Both GH1 and GH2 mRNA contain open reading frames comprising 630 nucleotides and encode 210 amino acid residues, of which 11...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Agellon LB,Davies SL,Lin CM,Chen TT,Powers DA

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Human ejaculate spermatozoa contain multiple mRNA species carried over from earlier stages in spermatogenesis. To date, gene-specific RT-PCR or in situ hybridization has detected transcripts for beta-actin, heat shock proteins (HSP) 70 and 90, protamines (PRM) 1 and 2, transition protein (TNp) 2, HLA II, beta-integrin...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Miller D

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:The neomycin-resistant gene (neo(r)) is probably the most commonly used selectable marker gene in gene targeting and gene transfection research. In this study, the neo(r) gene construct was introduced into in vitro cultured goat foetal fibroblast cells (IV-5), and the cells were selected with 900 microg/ml G418. The G...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zou X,Wang Y,Cheng Y,Yang Y,Ju H,Tang H,Shen Y,Mu Z,Xu S,Du M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

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：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the mechanism of androgen-mediated, prolonged sperm-storage in the female reproductive tract of the bat, Scotophilus heathii. The bat treated in vivo with flutamide, an androgen antagonist, showed loss of spermatozoa at the storage site, utero-tubal junction. Immunocytoc...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Roy VK,Krishna A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposed plasma membrane proteins were labeled with 125I before and after incubation of boar sperm under capacitating conditions. Labeled protein profiles were compared to the ability of the sperm to penetrate zona-free hamster ova. Quantitatively, the labeled sperm membrane proteins were primarily low Mr prior to capa...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Berger T

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulators are located at the boundaries of differentially regulated genes and delimit their interactions by establishing independent chromatin structures. Recently, an insulator sequence has been found in the 5'-flanking region of arylsulfatase (ARS) gene from sea urchin. To investigate functional conservation of thi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Takada T,Iida K,Akasaka K,Yasue H,Torii R,Tsujimoto G,Taira M,Kimura H

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin-like protein C (PLP-C) is a major rat placental protein which is expressed during the second half of pregnancy and belongs to the growth hormone-prolactin family. Here we report on the isolation of overlapping rat placental cDNAs which specify a transcript of 915 base pairs and predict a 205-amino acid trans...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Conliffe PR,Simmen RC,Buhi WC,Shiverick KT

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In newt testis, spermatocytes never appear during winter, because secondary spermatogonia die by apoptosis just before meiosis. In the current study, we examined the effect of low temperatures on spermatogenesis. Incubation of newts at low temperatures (8, 12, 15 degrees C) induced defects in spermatogenesis in a temp...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Yazawa T,Nakayama Y,Fujimoto K,Matsuda Y,Abe K,Kitano T,Abé S,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：: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：:Many studies have shown a correlation between transferrin (Tf) concentration and sperm yield in several mammalian species. We have used transgenic mice expressing human Tf (hTf) to investigate if overexpression of Tf increases the efficiency of mouse spermatogenesis. We demonstrated that a 36% increase of Tf does not ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lécureuil C,Staub C,Fouchécourt S,Maurel MC,Fontaine I,Martinat N,Gauthier C,Daudignon A,Delaleu B,Sow A,Jégou B,Guillou F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the presence of four sperm glycosidases, alpha-mannosidase, alpha-L- fucosidase and two beta-hexosaminidase isoforms, in 11 species of the genus Drosophila spanning approximately an evolutionary 60 MY period, and in Scaptodrosophila lebanonensis, belonging to the ancestor genus Scaptodrosophila. These ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Intra J,Cenni F,Pavesi G,Pasini M,Perotti ME

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation and maintenance of testis cords during embryogenesis are essential for establishing testicular structure and function in adults. At least five genes (Wt1, Dhh, Sox8/Sox9, and Dax1) appear to be required for the maintenance of testis cord integrity in mice. Here, we report that RFX1 is specifically expressed ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Wang B,Qi T,Chen SQ,Ye L,Huang ZS,Li H

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testis-specific protein kinases are important because of their potential role in spermiogenesis, sperm maturation, and sperm function. In the present study, a novel serine-threonine kinase with high identity to human serine-threonine kinase 31 (STK31) was cloned from equine testis and expression of the protein was cha...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Sabeur K,Ball BA,Corbin CJ,Conley A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sperm nucleus has a unique chromatin structure where the DNA is highly condensed and associated with specific proteins, the protamines. It is a nondividing cell which is also transcriptionally inactive. After fusion with an oocyte, the sperm nucleus undergoes decondensation and, in the same time, starts replicatio...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Hazzouri M,Rousseaux S,Mongelard F,Usson Y,Pelletier R,Faure AK,Vourc'h C,Sèle B

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PLAC1 is a recently described, trophoblast-specific gene that localizes to a region of the X-chromosome important in placental development. Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that PLAC1 polypeptide localizes to the differentiated syncytiotrophoblast throughout gestation (8-41 weeks) as well as a small populatio...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Massabbal E,Parveen S,Weisoly DL,Nelson DM,Smith SD,Fant M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00