Sperm-specific AKAP3 is a dual-specificity anchoring protein that interacts with both protein kinase a regulatory subunits via conserved N-terminal amphipathic peptides.

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：:In Discoglossus pictus oocytes, the germinative area (GA) contains long and irregular microvilli where actin microfilaments are located. In the egg, the funnel-shaped dimple that originates by invagination of the GA is present. In the dimple both microvilli and microfilament bundles have a very orderly appearance. Thi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Campanella C,Chaponnier C,Quaglia L,Gualtieri R,Gabbiani G

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:The aim of this study is to examine the effect of bovine oocyte maturation, fertilization or culture in vivo or in vitro on the proportion of oocytes reaching the blastocyst stage, and on blastocyst quality as measured by survival following vitrification. In Experiment 1, 4 groups of oocytes were used: (1) immature oo...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Rizos D,Ward F,Duffy P,Boland MP,Lonergan P

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During early placental development, tumor suppressors and oncogenes work synergistically to regulate cell proliferation and differentiation in a restrained manner compared with the uncontrollable growth in cancer. One example of this partnership is the regulation of the oncofetal protein HMGA2 by BRCA1. BRCA1 forms a ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： West RC,Russ JE,Bouma GJ,Winger QA

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Derivation and stable maintenance of porcine induced pluripotent stem cells (piPSCs) is challenging. We herein systematically analyzed two piPSC lines, derived by lentiviral transduction and cultured under either leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) or fibroblast growth factor (FGF) conditions, to shed more light on the u...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Secher JO,Ceylan A,Mazzoni G,Mashayekhi K,Li T,Muenthaisong S,Nielsen TT,Li D,Li S,Petkov S,Cirera S,Luo Y,Thombs L,Kadarmideen HN,Dinnyes A,Bolund L,Roelen BA,Schmidt M,Callesen H,Hyttel P,Freude KK

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades worth of research have consistently shown the adverse effects of elevated temperatures on reproductive parameters of livestock species. The objective of this study was to evaluate the developmental and apoptotic responses of porcine in vitro fertilized (IVF) and parthenogenetically activated (PA) embryos heat ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Isom SC,Prather RS,Rucker EB 3rd

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen is denatured in the gradual cervical ripening process during late pregnancy, already before the onset of final cervical ripening at parturition. Matrix Metallo Proteinases (MMPs) might be responsible for this process. To investigate the presence and potential function of MMPs at the different stages of the ri...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： van Engelen E,Breeveld-Dwarkasing VN,Taverne MA,Everts ME,van der Weijden GC,Rutten VP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminum hydroxide gel (Al-gel), which is used as an adjuvant, can absorb macromolecules. We investigated the applicability of Al-gel to the sustained release of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) as a simplified method of superovulation (SOV) in rabbits. The responsiveness of rabbits to SOV by a single injection of F...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Hashimoto S,Kimura K,Kuramochi T,Aoyagi K,Hirako M,Kawaguchi M,Iwata H,Hirao M,Kitada K,Hirasawa K,Ueda M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermiogenesis pursues three major objectives: (1) The safeguard of the male genome within the confines of a compact nucleus. (2) The accumulation of enzymes in the acrosome of be released at fertilization. (3) The development of a sperm propelling tail consisting of an axoneme surrounded by a scaffold of keratin-cont...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kierszenbaum AL

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear import of plasmid DNA mediated by a nuclear localization signal (NLS) derived from SV40 T antigen was investigated in a cell-free extract. In vitro assembled sea urchin male pronuclei were incubated in a 100,000g supernatant of a zebrafish fertilized egg lysate, together with fluorescently labeled plasmid DNA ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Collas P,Aleström P

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:The first indication that the insulin-like growth factor-II/mannose 6-phosphate receptor (IGF-II/M6PR) is developmentally regulated came from studies of the serum form of the receptor in the rat. By immunoblotting, the circulating form of the receptor, which was 10 kDa smaller than the tissue receptor, was high in 19 ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Nissley P,Kiess W,Sklar M

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：:The production of chimeras, by use of cell transplantation, has proved to be highly valuable in studies of development by providing insights into cell fate, differentiation, and developmental potential. So far, chimeric honeybees have been created by nuclear transfer technologies. We have developed protocols to produc...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Bergem M,Norberg K,Roseth A,Meuwissen T,Lien S,Aamodt RH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the influence of progesterone, the porcine uterus synthesizes plasmin/trypsin inhibitor (PTI), a low molecular weight protein (M(r) approximately 14,000) belonging to the Kunitz family of proteinase inhibitors. Here it is demonstrated that mRNA for the same protein is produced by the developing trophoblast durin...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Duffy JY,Stallings-Mann ML,Trout WE,Roberts RM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine the effects of vitrification on promoter methylation and the expression levels of pluripotency and differentiation genes in mouse blastocysts. Promoter region CpG methylation patterns and the expression levels of octamer-binding transcription factor (Oct4), Nanog homeobox (N...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zhao XM,Du WH,Hao HS,Wang D,Qin T,Liu Y,Zhu HB

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:Successful pregnancy depends on the precise regulation of extravillous trophoblast cell invasion ability. MicroRNA-210-3p (miR-210), which is increased in the placenta of pre-eclampsia. Furthermore, miR-210 could inhibit trophoblasts invasion and might act as a serum biomarker for pre-eclampsia. Previous studies have ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Wang R,Liu W,Liu X,Liu X,Tao H,Wu D,Zhao Y,Zou L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse oocyte development in vitro has been studied in the past several years, but no evidence showed that the fertilizable oocytes could be obtained from the fetal mouse germ cells before the formation of the primordial follicles. In this study, an efficient and simple method has been established to obtain the mature ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Shen W,Li L,Zhang D,Pan Q,Ding M,Deng H

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：: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：:The mRNA translational control protein, Musashi, plays a critical role in cell fate determination through sequence-specific interactions with select target mRNAs. In proliferating stem cells, Musashi exerts repression of target mRNAs to promote cell cycle progression. During stem cell differentiation, Musashi target m...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Arumugam K,Macnicol MC,Macnicol AM

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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：:The role of extracellular matrix (ECM) in the differentiation of tissue types was examined in embryos of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. We have examined the expression of various tissue-specific molecular markers after disrupting the ECM by culturing embryos in the presence of beta-aminoproprionitrile fumarate (BAPN),...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Benson S,Rawson R,Killian C,Wilt F

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormones (GnRHs) are decapeptides well known to regulate the reproductive cycle. They are expressed not only in the brain, but also in other tissues including the gonads. It is believed that they may be involved in the endocrine and paracrine regulation of the reproductive cycle. To date, two fo...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Uzbekova S,Lareyre JJ,Madigou T,Davail B,Jalabert B,Breton B

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oviduct is a dynamic organ which modulates gamete physiology. Sperm-oviduct interaction provides the formation of a sperm storage reservoir and allows the selection of sperm with certain qualities in eutherian mammals. In sows, the oviductal sperm binding glycoprotein (SBG) has been proposed to be involved in sper...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Teijeiro JM,Ignotz GG,Marini PE

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00