Plasma membrane proteome of adhesion-competent endometrial epithelial cells and its modulation by Rab11a.

abstract：:Previous studies from our laboratory have identified MPS, a 100-kDa protein, as the major phosphoprotein substrate of caprine sperm ecto-cyclic AMP independent protein kinase. In this study the isolated (32)P-labelled MPS has been incorporated into mature caprine (Capra indicus) cauda-epididymal spermatozoa with the h...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Maiti A,Mishra KP,Majumder GC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exogenous supply of hematopoietic cytokines is essential for maintaining murine embryonic stem (ES) cells in a proliferative yet undifferentiated state. Recently, it was demonstrated that hematopoietic cytokines utilize the gp130 signal transduction pathway to maintain this phenotype, although their involvement tow...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Moore K,Piedrahita JA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various thiol compounds are known to improve cytoplasmic and/or nuclear maturation of oocytes in vitro. The present study examined the effects of two thiol compounds, cysteine (0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 mM) and cysteamine (50, 100, and 200 microM), on cytoplasmic and nuclear maturation of canine oocytes. Oocytes collected fro...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Hossein MS,Kim MK,Jang G,Oh HJ,Koo O,Kim JJ,Kang SK,Lee BC,Hwang WS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to investigate the effects of edaravone on hypoxia-induced trophoblast cell proliferation, apoptosis, and invasion. The trophoblast cell line HTR-8 (H8) was treated with cobalt chloride (CoCl2 ) with or without a 1-hr edaravone pretreatment, followed by assessment of intracellular reactive oxy...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zheng Y,Zhao Y,Luo Q,Liu X,Liu X,Hu Y,Zou L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation/demethylation of donor genomes in recipient ooplasm after nuclear transfer occurs in a species-specific way. In cloned rabbit and bovine embryos, repetitive sequences maintain the donor-type methylation status, but typical demethylation of repetitive sequences takes place in cloned porcine embryos. To ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Chen T,Zhang YL,Jiang Y,Liu JH,Schatten H,Chen DY,Sun QY

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the level of transcriptional activity in 32-cell stage morula nuclei were studied after blastomere electrofusion to enucleated oocytes. Nuclear transplant recipients were pulse labelled with 3H-uridine during cultivation in vitro, embryos were then fixed and processed for autoradiography and electron micros...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kanka J,Hozák P,Heyman Y,Chesné P,Degrolard J,Renard JP,Fléchon JE

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many ascidians live in clumps and usually release sperm before the eggs. Consequently, eggs are often spawned into dense clouds of sperm. Because fertilization by more than a single sperm is lethal, ascidians have evolved at least two successive blocks to polyspermy: the rapid release of a glycosidase that inhibits sp...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lambert C,Goudeau H,Franchet C,Lambert G,Goudeau M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies were performed to establish the effects of the size and number of artificial holes produced in the zona pellucida (ZP) on hatching and trophoblast outgrowth in vitro. Limited partial zona dissection (PZD) produced small, narrow incisions, and zona drilling with acidic Tyrode's (AT) across a larger ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Cohen J,Feldberg D

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of stem cell factor (SCF) mRNA and protein was examined in the postnatal rat testis. Northern blot analysis of total RNA from 1-4 days postpartum (dpp) testes showed none or barely detectable levels of the approximately 6.5 kb SCF transcript. At 5 dpp, there was a striking elevation in this mRNA, a timi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Munsie M,Schlatt S,deKretser DM,Loveland KL

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carp hyosophorin (HSP) is purified from oocytes. It is a highly glycosylated protein (10% protein and 90% carbohydrate) of high molecular weight (>100 kDa) and is localized in the cortical granules of oocytes. During cortical reaction carp HSP is exocytosed into the perivitelline space and is rapidly cleaved to the lo...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Tsao CC,Huang FL,Chang YS

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：: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：:Zona pellucida (ZP) glycoproteins have been proposed as candidate antigens for an immunocontraceptive vaccine. The efficacy of such a vaccine has to be evaluated in nonhuman primates, thus necessitating the characterization of their ZP glycoproteins. A bonnet monkey (Macaca radiata) ovarian cDNA lambda gt11 library wa...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Jethanandani P,Santhanam R,Gupta SK

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier work from this laboratory has determined that glucose plays an important role in the mechanisms regulating meiotic maturation in mammalian oocytes. In the current study, we have further explored the role of glucose in hormone-induced germinal vesicle breakdown (GVB) in an effort to better understand how glucos...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Downs SM,Humpherson PG,Martin KL,Leese HJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Activins, the dimeric polypeptides of inhibin beta-subunits, exhibit paracrine effects on cell proliferation, differentiation, and various other cell functions. The complex biological response to activin appears to involve multiple receptors. In the present study, we examined the isoform mRNA expression of both activi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Wu TC,Jih MH,Wang L,Wan YJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh cytosols extracted from unfertilized amphibian eggs contain a cytostatic factor (CSF) which arrests the cell cycle at metaphase when microinjected into cleaving blastomeres. This CSF is sensitive to Ca2+, and is designated primary CSF (1 degree CSF). During storage of Ca(2+)-containing cytosols at 2 degrees C, s...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zhang J,Masui Y

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:Smarca 2 (Brahma) and Smarca 4 (Brahma related gene 1, BRG1) alternatively occupy the catalytic site of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes. Mammalian embryos undergo a dramatic amount of epigenetic remodeling during cleavage development, which plays key roles in regulating both gene transcription and the developme...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Magnani L,Cabot RA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) belong to the transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ) superfamily. BMPs mediate a highly conserved signal transduction cascade through the type-I and type-II serine/threonine kinase receptors and intracellular Smad proteins, which regulate multiple developmental and homeostatic proces...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Tian C,Liu J

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：: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：:Endometriosis is regarded as a hormone-dependent disease. Current therapeutic approaches to treating this common gynecological disorder mainly depend on surgical and hormonal interventions, but the high rate of disease recurrence as well as the side effects related to such therapies make it difficult for patients to r...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Che XH,Chen YC,Chen CL,Ye XL,Zhu H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MAP kinase (MAPK) and its activator, MAP kinase kinase (MAPKK), are commonly activated by a variety of extracellular stimuli in mammalian cells and in the process of Xenopus oocyte maturation. In order to investigate the function of the MAPK cascade in oocyte maturation, we produced an anti-Xenopus MAPKK which specifi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Gotoh Y,Nishida E

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragmentation occurs during early developmental stages of electrically activated oocytes and nuclear transfer (NT) embryos. It might contribute to the low developmental rate of porcine NT embryos. The present study was conducted to investigate whether the addition of sugars such as sorbitol or sucrose suppresses fragm...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Im GS,Yang BS,Lai L,Liu Z,Hao Y,Prather RS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goals of this work were to create germ-cell-stage-specific cDNA libraries from mouse spermatogenic cells and to employ a novel two-step genetic screen to identify gene sequences present during the critical meiotic stage of spermatogenesis. Highly enriched germ-cell fractions were prepared from adult and juvenile m...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Caldwell KA,Wiltshire T,Handel MA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrosin is thought to fulfill several different roles in fertilization including that of a serine protease and in secondary zona pellucida (ZP) binding. However, acrosin's importance as a fertilization protein has been questioned. Especially since it was discovered that acrosin knockout mice are fertile. In this study...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Raterman D,Springer MS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptor mRNA expression was detected in the head and tail parts of the human epididymis by means of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Immunocytochemical labelling showed that ciliate and nonciliate cells from the epithelium of the efferent ductules possessed strong to moderate nuclear...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ergün S,Ungefroren H,Holstein AF,Davidoff MS

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00